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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends on your learning style.  For audio learners they can be much better.

Newsflash, people read and learn differently.  I am a very fast reader, so audiobooks actually slow me down.

I was a literature major, and my technique for reading course books was to read it through at my normal speed, like watching a movie, first.  Then I did a second read where I go slow, stop and take the notes for my papers, etc.

I retain audiobooks very well if I am doing manual labor like mowing the yard.  If I have to pay half a thought to what I am doing, I do podcasts that don’t matter.[/quote]

That's a very good point.  I did a PhD in history, where you're assigned these giant tomes for your seminar so I ended having to learn to read a lot of material quickly.  After grad school, I started reading almost everything - unless it was a very technically difficult or very theoretical work - very quickly.  Audiobooks helped me slow down the pace.  You can't just whip through Bleak House in 4 hours on the first try and get anything from it (at least I can't!)  [/quote]

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