Yes, short and easy, a favorite genre or rereading a book from childhood are all good ideas for starting. If SPQR had been my first audiobook I wouldn’t have made it to a second one.

My reading is 80% audiobooks and has been for years. I still have trouble with some. I have a few thoughts about it and tips that help me.

1. I have to speed them up or I get lost in my own thoughts.
2. Bad voices can ruin perfectly good books, if you don’t like the voice acting it’s going to be hard to have a good experience.
3. It’s a skill, just like print reading. I have gotten better at it over time. A brain can reshape to become better at processing audio information, but it’s work at first.
4. Nonfiction is harder in audio I usually read it in print unless it’s narrative nonfiction.
5. I try to start books when I’m doing something very boring, like dishes. I sometimes have to restart a few times, but that also happens to me with print. Once I get going I’m usually able to do slightly more difficult tasks and still focus.
6. Books that jump perspectives frequently without any audible indication are not a great place to start.

I wouldn’t be able to read nearly as many books if it weren’t for audiobooks so I do think it is worth pursuing if you want to read more books but have limited time you can spend looking at print.

I was holding out hope for the crow one, dang.