/lit/ doesn't want to admit this but audiobooks are for the aristocratic and reading is for lowly administrators. If you're an excellent reader then it's highly probable that your gene pool has been polluted with disgusting clerical or merchant blood. Kings, noblemen, and men of real worth would simply command their inferiors to narrate the contents back to them -- saving time and energy and possibly banging the inferior's wives and daughters. Think about it, you literally have the ability to "command" a person via technology to read for you and you still choose slog through words on paper. In short, readers are a loathsome class of peasants.