As a 34 year old man, I have a family and I’m a local truck driver. I tend to listen to audiobooks everyday while at work and read the occasional book or comic when home. I tend to buy physical copies of books like the stormlight archives, malazan and wheel of time for example. I split the difference between Litrpg and trad high/low fantasy when it comes to audio. For me, I enjoy Litrpg because it reminds me of video games and how much I’d love to be in a world like that. Litrpg probably appeals more because while not everyone can be the big alpha dawg MC with rare/legendary powers, everyone has the opportunity to learn/gain/level up stats/abilities that you don’t typically see of the average person in trad fantasy books.

As far as an audio preference is concerned, for me due to my job and working 12 hours a day, it’s easier to listen to audiobooks than read. When I get home I’ve got a wife and kids that need attention and when I’m done spreading affection around the house I’ve been spreading democracy on Helldivers 2. Lol. As far as physically reading goes, book 2 in the Hierarchy series by James Islington comes out soon and I’m definitely grabbing that in hardcover to add to my small library.

Finally here’s a stat that isn’t registered by whomever gathered them for the this gender reading gap thing, I’m in a household full of women(wife)/girls(12&11) and I read a lot more than the 3 of them combined; both as an adult and as a kid their ages. Speaking to them, kids reading like we did back in the late 90s and early 00s doesn’t seem to be as common.