I find that listening to a book is for me a very different experience from reading it. Like you I tend to skip over stuff when reading, so I find I notice clonky prose (and for that matter beautiful writing style) a lot more when listening to the reading.
I have started listening to a lot of my favorite books, even those I’ve read several times, and really enjoy it.
A word of caution. The listening experience is enormously dependent on the talent of the reader. Approach books “read by the author” with fear and trembling. Writing and reading aloud are too very different skillsets!
too = two.
I knew that.