[eitally]

I read the first of The Three Body Problem trilogy in print, and then listened to audiobook versions of the second & third books. Only they weren't audiobooks. I downloaded PDFs and then used a mobile app (Librera, I believe) to "read" them to me while I exercised. The benefit is that it allows arbitrary text to be converted to audio, but the downside is that it's only able to use your device's TTS voices, and there aren't any AI smarts built-in, so it was like listening to the Google Assistant read an audiobook. It got the job done, but now I have a somewhat visceral reaction to that Assistant voice having associated it with Chinese sci-fi for several weeks.

Something better would be very much appreciated. It's still not a replacement for high quality, professionally narrated audiobooks, but -- like you said, it's not just books that I'd like to consume this way.