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Audiobooks! I went from reading 0 books in 2024 to 72 books in 2025. I listen on walks, commutes, and luckily have a job where I can listen at work.
good for you, but there is something important to mention. LISTENING is not reading, they are literally two different words for two different activities and there is a reason for that.
I guess it depends on what you’re trying to achieve with reading. I want to experience a good story, or maybe learn something. Audiobooks do the job just fine, maybe better than text for me. If you think there’s inherent value in consuming text, then I can respect that, but it doesn’t discount the tremendous amount of value that audiobooks have in many people’s lives.
reading is active process, contrary to listening, which is quite passive one. you really have to focus on reading and it is unlikely for you to be reading and suddenly realize you are actually not reading and you don’t know what happened for the last 3 pages.
if the audio books work for you, great, but listening and reading are still two different words for a reason.
it is unlikely for you to be reading and suddenly realize you are actually not reading and you don’t know what happened for the last 3 pages.
Really? This is an unlikely occurrence to you? This is my fucking process for reading a book. Exactly to a T.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3842750/
that may very well be, but you are not in a majority on this. and it is still no reason to use words that actually mean something different then you are describing. there is absolutely no upside to calling apple strawberry, when it is, in fact, an apple, it will just confuse your audience.
The way we encounter reading material influences how frequently we mind wander
We examined whether different encounters of reading material influence the likelihood of mind wandering, memory for the material, and the ratings of interest in the material. In a within-subjects design participants experienced three different ...