As a person who loves reading but recently has little time for it, I tried to switch to audiobooks. However, I keep catching myself losing attention while trying to concentrate on the audiobook. I find myself scrolling back on the recording to catch up on things I missed, and it’s highly frustrating. It puzzles me because I can easily read a physical book in a public place, but I can’t seem to listen to an audiobook in a public setting.
Has anyone else experienced this problem with audiobooks? Do you consider it a good alternative to a physical book when there’s no possibility or time to read a book?
They work differently for different people. I could never just sit and listen to an audiobook, but I can’t just sit and listen to anything. Not having a secondary focus is often a guarantee that I won’t process the primary stream of information. But this also means that I can often handle audiobooks when I wouldn’t be able to handle reading text. Audiobooks allow for me to take up that secondary task very easily.