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?
Yes! But it completely depends on the book and what I am doing. If it’s a book that’s pretty easy to read, and I’m just doing something simple with my hands that doesn’t require any thought, then I’m okay. But if it’s kind of a dense-ish book and I’m doing something like driving which also requires some attention, then I’m out lol. You can forget about me ever finishing that audiobook. But sometimes it does work to listen when I’m driving, it just has to be something easy to listen to.