It's not snobbery, reading and listening activate different parts of your brain and you'll experience them differently. Just like reading an interview transcript is different to listening to an interview.

> reading and listening activate different parts of your brain and you'll experience them differently

This doesn't matter. What matters to me is I experienced the stories conveyed by the words.

I bet reading a hardback lights up different parts of the brain compared to e-book readers, but that difference does not to me matter either.