Videos are better, yes, but not if it’s just someone recording their narration of a book, it needs to have something happening. Videos like Hakim’s work well, for example.

Definitely no direct conversation with me. I have Autism, and if a stranger tries to engage me in conversation, the anxiety I feel will be so extreme that there’s no way I’m going to remember much of anything from that conversation. If it’s someone I know well, that can work.