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I respect audio books, and I enjoy them. It's great that others listen to them too, but it isn't the same as reading. It's a different experience.
Listening to a recording of someone reading a book isn't the same as reading a book yourself, just like listening to a recording of someone using the bathroom isn't the same as using the bathroom yourself.
The information is the same... I imagine the same image in my head in an audio book as I do in the real book. Your comparison is trash. But on the bathroom note I guess, a book is like toilet paper, takes time have to double check each wipe, fold it over. It gets done eventually. An audio book is like a bidet. Fast, clean, effective. Both get your ass clean.
Listening is not reading. If you disagree, try this. Start your favorite audiobook where you left off. Now, go back two chapters and "read" the second sentence of the fifth paragraph. Do it by feel because you've listened to it before.