Is reading always better for your brain than listening to audiobooks?

Is reading always better for your brain than listening to audiobooks? Reading books and listening to audiobooks tap into different elements of cognition, each with their own benefits. So which one should you choose, and when? But when a friend recently asked me whether her daughter was getting the same cognitive benefits from an audiobook as she would from reading, my instinct was to think "she's enjoying a book, the format doesn't matter". However, when I dug into the science, I found the medium does shape the mind in subtly different but meaningful ways.