Honestly, however you choose to consume books is fine with me. But if you find a way to deal with all the spines, let me know. They hurt my mouth.

This is perfect to for a herpetologist to listen to while flying to an exotic reptile convention and transporting their collection.

I like to think it's still reading, just with your ears. Either way you're still consuming the content and internalizing it and audiobooks can be what folks who are vision-impaired or otherwise can't read need to be able to enjoy said content.