I still read physical books. Never tried an audiobook.
I have 1,687 hours listened on Audible. Lol. That’s 2 months 10 days 7 hours and 9 minutes.
I can’t read physical books because the only time I would have is after my 2yr old and 5yr old are In bed. If I try to read a physical book after 8:30pm, I fall immediately to sleep.
So instead I listen while I go for a job in the morning, while I get ready for work, while I drive in, on my lunch break, when I drive home, while I’m doing dishes and cleaning up the kitchen and dining room (while wife is washing kids and getting them to bed). On the weekends I listen while I’m running errands and doing chores.
I can get like 5-10hrs a week in while I multi-task. For reference Les Miserables is 1400 pages in English (one of the longest ever translated to English among popular fiction). It’s 60 hours on audible. East of Eden is 600 pages and about 25 hours on audible. Two of my favorite audio books, incidentally. The versions narrated by George Guidall.
Ive always been a person who learned best from the lectures in school, rather than the textbook at home.
I love the long ones. Especially series. I like a good 100+ hour series of novels on audible. Like the Ken Follett Century Series. Or the James Clavell Shogun series or Dan Brown Robert Langom series or John Jakes North and South series or Harry Turtledove Great War series. All of them are over 100 hours combined. All 3-5 books long.