You Like Audio, Video Or Text When Reading New Material?

We do a lot of learning online by ourselves. Material is available as videos and transcripts of the videos.

Reading books, articles - we can read a book or article, or listen to the audio version. Listening can be done at times one cannot read, such as while driving.

Question:
You prefer listening to material or reading it?
Are you fine with both, or strongly prefer one method over the other?
What do you like or dislike about each method?

 

I have tried listening, but it didn't work at all. I need to be able to skim over material and fast forward through some parts - hard to that when listening. The narrator is always too slow for my taste. Though, some videos have the option of playing at higher/lower speeds and that helps a bit. As does the simple feature of being able to fast forward in 15 second chunks.

 

Not horrible at all! I also prefer videos only for movies/TV or some hard to fix/repair household project.

 

But that's be mostly the speaker's face or computer, right?

 

I also make notes, and that too handwritten notes. Though, with the need for imbibing of knowledge or info to be sped up, I do it for more important ones only now.

True. And just humbling to count how many are out there on how many topics!