First of all, simply distinguish between listening and reading. Reading is to absorb the content through the eyes, and then transform it through your own understanding and internalize it into knowledge that you can use; Listening to books is to absorb knowledge directly through the ears, not through the eyes. In the process of listening, take its essence, discard its dross, and absorb high-quality content for your own use after brain screening. In addition, listening to books is also an effective way to screen books that you like or need. After listening to a condensed book, if you are interested in the content mentioned in the process of listening to the book, you can find the book afterwards, read it carefully and savor it. From the point of view of efficiency, it is more efficient than looking for a book to read directly and then seeing whether you like it or not.
Then, let's see how to use listening to books instead of reading. Reading needs to be absorbed and can't be disturbed by trivial matters, otherwise the efficiency will be very low, but listening to books is different. Listening to books can be carried out together with some chores, such as doing housework every day, waiting for the bus to go to work, taking the subway, running and so on. Instead of doing nothing to let time flow away, it is better to wear headphones, listen to a book and immerse yourself in your own world.
Finally, I want to say, don't stick to the form, whether listening to books or reading books, as long as it can increase our knowledge reserve, we should make use of it.