SECTUAL

It's merely the truth. Yes, of course audiobooks are handy, they're good to have, they're better than nothing...

But I think the propensity toward collecting audio (intangible) "books" rather than actually physical copies is indeed a conspiracy with a plethora of aims...

Not the least of which is to make people less linguistically and communicatively competent by not sharpening the tool of the written word. 

Also, it's useful to get people hooked on audiobooks because there are no books to burn and information is much more easily censored. With the flip of a switch or a line of code or an unfortunate shock, audiobooks are gone forever.

There is a lot to be said for SEEING the words...

You don't learn to spell by listening to something.

There's no concrete concept of a word unless it's written.

You might be thinking, "I know how to read. Why wouldn't I just listen to an audiobook?"

Well it's all about linguistics.

What do you read the most? Is it intellectual, is it proper? What do you hear the most?

If you spend most of your time reading idiocy, and hearing idiocy...

You're going to need to listen to and hear a lot of intellectual material to make up for it.

You NEED to SEE the words so that you can be familiar with them in order to spell them and speak them...

The intellectual material needs to outnumber and dominate the idiocy that you take in, and you have to take in the intellectual material in its various forms to make up for the intake of idiocy.

I find that I do so much other reading online that its just more enjoyable to give the eyes a break when its time for relaxing . Listen lady , I hear what you are throwing down . When we read it is far more enriching as we can grasp every nuance especially since its so easy to go back a few sentences and re-read something so it really sinks in . Perhaps we need to start an underground bunker where all the important works of literature are stored in sealed containers just in case the jews decide to zap all the computers .