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Originally Posted by Catlady
I love my audiobooks; they're my preferred mode of reading at this point. But I am skeptical of any claims that they are just as good as text for learning and retaining information.
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Skepticism is, I think, good. But know that there are several cited studies (linked if you follow down in to the material) that claim it is indeed just as good.
Not that I automatically believe any claim made by anyone who publishes a study, but unless there is some stronger evidence than just one person's personal perception (and I don't doubt that a particular individual may do better with text than with audio) then I'll tend to put more weight on the studies for the general rule.
(p.s. I'm sure the specific kind of book matters, too. I will get just as much out of a non-fiction book about the history of computers in audio as in text--maybe more if the narrator is really good, but I'm not about to try learning a new programming language from an audiobook!)