this is from months ago, but I was just thinking about what you said here because I've been listening to a lot of audiobooks (because of my own disability).

It's interesting -- I would feel exceedingly leery of teaching the books without having the printed texts to turn to, because that's how I've learned to read. And yet listening, because it's forcing me not to skim, is revealing things about the texts to me which I'd never thought before. I'm almost reaching the point where I feel like audiobook + print gives me a richer critical reading than either of them standing alone.