Perhaps it's a question of learning style, or listening style, but with a printed book I can change the pace in the middle of a sentence, heck, the middle of a word, based on how distracted I am, how much I understand the context, etc.

With an audiobook I'm constantly missing something because I'm thinking through what I've just heard.

> With an audiobook I'm constantly missing something because I'm thinking through what I've just heard.

This is me and physical books! I can get through several pages without realizing I haven't taken in a single thing, and not have any idea how far back to go. I get far enough that scanning the text to work out where I got lost isn't an advantage and often I just give up.

Rewind to where you lost track. Several times if necessary.

Maybe some context. When I'm listening to audiobooks, I'm not just sitting there with my phone in my hand: I'm working out, cleaning, walking, cooking, bathing, etc, I'm doing all the great things that audiobooks let me do in parallel to reading a book, and that's great.

However, this results in me having a harder time quickly pausing, rewinding, changing speed, which in turn makes me reflect less on the content I'm reading.

That's probably pretty common. I do it while driving and find it very easy to change speed or rewind on the fly.

I think the fact that I am driving and have some amount of my focus on that is a bigger differentiator vs a physical book for me.