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?
So, chances are you actually do the same thing when you are reading in print and don’t notice. You either pause your attention when something else catches it while reading a physical book or you re-read a sentence or two. The audio book doesn’t react to your personal attention, so it’s more noticeable that you are going back.