get the audio book
That's what I did and it was well read by the narrator, Zachary Quinto (or as I like to call him newSpock). Plus the book is written in 1st person, so it just begs to be listened to audibly.
I don't really understand rss other than it is the magic bit of code that tells my feed aggregator there is something new to look at. I really don't care what the method is as long as the bits I want to read land on the platform I will see them.