This was a typo, but I wish it wasn´t, because I likea!
Barbarella in overalls?
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Got myself something from the “If I would send presents to @PiecesOfKate this would be one of them” department.
Check out the photo gallery!
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Oh! I totally flicked through this book in the gift shop at the Wellcome Collection! I recognise those pictures 
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Hah! I knew it! 
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More immersive? Really? Don’t you get distracted by the surroundings? I definitely would.
And I like reading because I can follow my pace. The pace of the reader of an audiobook is usually too much slow for me. But, on the contrary, while reading sometimes I have to go back through some passages, and it is not so easy while listening.
That’s ONE of the reasons I’m a fan of @Sushi’s transcriptions.
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Therefore it does work out to a reasonable extent. 
Also don’t forget that you can speed it up.
I don’t really get the more immersive personally. Differently immersive, perhaps.
Anyway, it does work well for me in a foreign language when you combine text + audiobook. I’ve read some French books with audio support on some chapters here and there. Part of the key is to use a player like mpv that makes it really easy to pause, go back five seconds, etc. With my old mp3 player I find it more bothersome, and with my phone (without a hardware back button) positively horrible.
I do listen to a fair bit of podcasts, more in contexts where for the most part it doesn’t matter to me if I fail to catch a bit. Like Stuff You Should Know or BBC Documentaries.
Not as much as with a book. The headphones help block the sound out. I guess I’m speaking more in terms of annoying sounds than visual distraction, but I tend to just gaze out the window.
At home I prefer reading books, though.
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“I’m coming to eat you!”
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I have to echo that. With a book I can quickly skim over boring sections, or re-read paragraphs that exhibit linguistic genius with ease. That aside, some early experiments revealed that listening to an audiobook would require the same level of concentration as reading; attempting it while riding my bike to work would likely get me killed. And in the comfort of my home, I prefer a book.
Apropos books. Just finished book one of the Lyonesse trilogy by Jack Vance. It was off to a very slow start, so the first 120 pages or so took me a week and some perseverance. The rest was quite gripping. All in all it did not quite reach the class of The Eyes of the Overworld or Cugel’s Saga, though I cannot say if this is in part because I read those in English, while I have a German copy of Lyonesse. It’s definitely more serious and less fantastic than the Dying Earth stories.
My copy is also from a period where some publishers found it a good idea to bury advertisements between the pages. Some of my old Discworld novels have that too. The nerve of these people … I mean look
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I’d post a picture, but my phone is refusing to upload due to low battery. Stay tuned…
Seems your copy has seen some pretty good use 
. Can’t wait to start The Green Pearl tonight.
Cugel is unique. You won’t find similar books by Vance. The closest you can get are: Cugel’s Saga, The Eyes of the Overworld, Liane der Wanderer (as in The Dying Earth [although it’s more the sun which is dying]), Rhialto the Marvellous and the Showboat World. But most of his books are worth being read anyway, with Chateau D’If being his best short story. And you could read them in German because Lore Straßl did a fantastic job on many books.
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: reading material for the next few months
In the past year I finally got more seriously into comic books.
With The Incal by Jodorowsky and Moebius and Sandman by Neil Gaiman and various others clearly among the very best.
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Preacher wasn’t too bad either.
That one at least has an adaptation now. I think my examples gotta be some of the greatest that still haven´t been turned into movies or TV shows which in this day in age is quite remarkable.