I've been thinking a bit about this since my last post. I'm a Kindle reader mainly but I used to listen to audiobooks. I still listen to a lot of short story readings on audio. I'm an old guy with diabetes so my guess is I'll eventually have to go back to audiobooks but that's okay.
Personally I think the content is what matters. How we partake of it matters to some people and not to others. It doesn't matter to me. It matters to HarryT and some others. I doubt there's any way to settle this. Perhaps a duel.
I'm reading Ken Follet's new sequel to "The Pillars of the Earth". This is mostly during the first Elizabethan era and is much about the protestants slaughtering catholics and the catholics slaughtering protestants. Maybe they had the right idea and a bunch of us who think audiobooks are the equal of paper books should gather a vast armada and attack those who don't.
It also brings to mind "Gulliver's Travels", in which the Lilliputians fought bitter political battles over whether it was proper to crack an egg on the large end or the small end. That's of a lot more consequence than how we input our books, of course.
Barry