is it safe to read listview properties from other thread than UI thread?

Hello, I have a listview with a number of files to encode. I am using delegates and asynchronous invocation to call the encoding method. I would like to ask if it's safe to read (only read) the items from the listview, from the new thread. I read an article from msdn that says: "you must never use any member of a Control on any thread other than the one that created it." Does this apply here or is it safe to do it? thnx geo