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> do you ever shake the feeling that having a book read to you is somehow qualitatively not as good as reading it from the page?

I can't answer for OP, but I did spend a year commuting a bunch and got through ~60 books or so that way.

I went from having time for 10-15 books a year to having time for ~60 books a year, so yes, you do miss a little. But not ~50 books worth of missing. It's easily worth it.