I thought it was pretty clear that I meant more people tended to read than listen to audio books in the 90s.

More people tend to read than listen to audio books today. Despite that audiobooks are very popular today. They were also very popular in the 90s and 00s. So I guess I’m still wondering what exactly your point is? Having books read to you is popular today, it was popular in the 00s, it was popular in the 90s, it was popular 200 years ago, it was popular 2,000 years ago, etc.

There was no point during your lifetime nor OPs lifetime that reading books was some kind of weird or not normal thing like OPs original comment implied.