Aliroz-The-Confused

A hearing-first go-through, I think, tends to leave the hearer with a clearer memory of dialogue and a fuzzier memory of detail, description, and worldbuilding.  I also think those who go through the books hearing-first tend to have an easier time keeping the large casts of characters in order but have a harder time keeping places and other stuff in order.

In my opinion, the wiki more or less exists as a service to hearing-go-through-noun-person-GOSH-DANG-IT-I-HATE-THAT-IT-WOULD-BE-RUDE-TO-JUST-SAY-OUTRIGHT-THAT-I-RESENT-THE-USE-OF-THE-WORD-READING-TO-REFER-TO-nevermind, because a physical paper book allows you to flip back (and in many situations where you can have a paper book and the opportunity to read, one can also additionally have a notebook and pencil to make notes (though you have to make them before you can read them); the wiki is essentially a shared notebook that can be read without writing.  This is a much easier and arguably more passive experience, much like hearing, but has the advantage of peer review and verified accuracy).  The speed and ease at which one can accurately navigate previous pages in a paper book is absolutely incredible.

Also, one can make markings in a book, page numbers are easier to remember than timestamps, and the ability to navigate a page with tiny slight eye movements is BONKERS COOL because it's so many tiny adjustments and movements but it's automatic and not exhausting (except when it is, and that's sad).  The downside of this is that it's far too easy to end up skipping sentences or paragraphs (the ability to go back may or may not compensate for this).

Page-reading also allows one to run around in a book like a playground, jumping from chapter to chapter, looking for goodies and Easter eggs.

One can much more easily go "I'mma read all of [insert-character-here]'s point of view chapters in a row" or "I want to read my favorite part three times, and then this other favorite part, and then take a shortcut to visit this one bit with the vibes that match my current mood" with paper.  And you know what that feels like?  IT FEELS LIKE NAVIGATING A WIKI!  (I mean a good wiki, the kind they don't make anymore, the kind we had back in 2011 when the internet was still wild and most websites didn't have advertisements).  Therefore, anyone who doesn't have the time to read the books in page-form (not your fault, society's full of nonsense like hour-long commutes to and from work five days a week just so the real estate people don't have to worry about the possibility of declining value of certain propertiesblahblahblahblahblah) and uses the wiki to keep stuff straight is NOT AN IDIOT and NOT ILLITERATE and NOT LAZY, no matter what paper-purists like me might want to say.  It's simply an accommodation for those who don't have the opportunity or ability to enjoy the books as a paper playground.