Audiobooks

Don't sweat it. The medium doesn't really matter if you absorb the content. Also some narrators\voice actors voices just sound better than the inner monologue you might have for that particular book.

I stock shelves at night in a supermarket and escape the drudgery with audiobooks. Any time where the hands work while the mind wanders is good:chores,commuting,curled up in bed with the lights out and the headphones on. And a good reader makes a book come alive through characterizations with voice and accents. After a night's work,reading conventionally is a struggle to stay awake,and finding the time to invest in a book impossible,so I consider the audio route not a cheat but a necessity.

>>8770962
Ma nigga! My 5 years of retail nights would have killed me if I didn't have audiobooks and podcasts. Keep it real, just hope for your sake you don't work frozen or produce.

It's okay for some genre fiction adventure, but I doubt any complex text can be understood from recitation. Things like poetry or philosophies require full attention and slow reading to be absorbed. Dunno, maybe I'm just retarded, obviously if it works for you don't let anyone tell you that audiobooks 'aren't real reading'

>>8771776
Chico de la Noche!
I work grocery,soda and mac and whatever else gets shoveled my way. Been doing it 32 years,but only had Audible for the last 12. Before that was cassette tapes and Howard Stern when he was on regular radio. Its a golden age of fighting mental breakdowns.

And I have a variety of books,from hardcore histories to dramatized Shakespeare plays and other radio play stuff. Yes,retention of what I hear is diluted by having to work,but it also means each relistening adds to the enjoyment as new nuances are discovered and savoured.