Audiobooks count. Graphic novels count. The format isn’t the point; the thinking is.

Snobbery about format confuses the container with the contents. What changes you is the quality of attention you bring and what you do with the material afterwards, not whether the words arrived through your eyes or your ears. Someone who listens carefully and thinks about it has done more than someone who finished a prestigious book without noticing a sentence.

Choose whatever format you will actually finish, then treat it seriously. Stop and rewind, take a note, argue with it. The measure is whether you could explain it to someone tomorrow.