Oh gosh, no, I listen to them while drawing, usually at work (if what I'm working on doesn't take too much brainpower). It was a joyful, joyful day in my life when I realized I could draw and 'read' at the same time. It had always been either/or for my favourite pasttimes before. I can't imagine listening to anything while reading, that would totally screw up my mental movie. My iPod pretty much only gets used at work, too – drawing is great and fun but a lot of the time my left brain turns into a truculent child saying 'I'm bored! Give me something to do!' and feeding it an audiobook or radio show keeps it from poking the right brain and distracting it from its employment.