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?
Yeah, I am exactly the same way, so what I do is 1. listen to books that I likely wouldn’t get around to reading the physical copy of (for example, I am currently working through all of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot novels, because my library doesn’t have them and there are like 40, it’s too expensive to buy them all, hence, I’d never get around to them physically). 2. I find that I need to be doing a relatively mindless task. If I do nothing, my mind will wonder, or I’ll fall asleep, but if I do something that requires much thought, I get distracted. A task that I don’t have to think too much about often keeps me grounded and able to listen. What’s considered a mindless task will vary from person to person, but for me, that’s painting, sudoku, or solitaire. I know people for whom it’s cleaning or video games.