Ricky1985 wrote:
Rampage wrote:
Audiobooks are great, they have gotten me through so many drab days at work, at university or commuting. I've been a gold member at Audible for a couple of years and have built up quite the library for very little cost. Absolutely recommended. I'm quite the non-fiction guy myself, my last membership purchase was "Team of Rivals: The Political Genuis of Abraham Lincoln", and I grabbed "Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck" today on sale for $7. Haven't given them a listen yet.
How do you find you retain information compared to reading books?
Retaining information through audiobooks is a skill just like reading is. There are many people who blast through page after page of a book yet can't recite a thing of what they just read. When I first began listening to audiobooks my mind wandered constantly, it's different than say a podcast that is essentially just background noise, but I stuck with it and now I retain information just fine. When I have a lot of reading to do for a paper or an exam at the University, I like to switch it up, a couple of hours of reading, then a couple of hours with audio. This way I find I don't get too burned out with one thing. I also like to take notes while listening to relevant audiobooks, which sounds stressfull, but again it's about practice.
Ultimately reading is better because you can read at your own pace, but audiobooks isn't just a gimmick, there's learning to be done through them.
