When I was a kid my mother used to read to us a lot, and I also used to listen to a show called Read To Me on Maine Public Radio that was on at 7:30 PM on certain evenings, and they would read classic children's books, so I guess I got used to taking in information that way. It's been great once I found LibriVox, because I am able to listen to most of the old books that I had read and partly forgotten since, and also I've found a lot of authors I would never have known about. It's almost all pre-1926, since that's the current public domain cutoff, but there was a lot of interesting stuff written back then.