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Originally Posted by drjd
I have failed to become a good audiobook listner despite various attempts. My mind wanders elsewhere while 'listening' a book and I often miss the narreted contents. My brain perhaps doesn't accept 'narrated' words comfortably as compared to 'read' words. Although I purposefully bought an Onyx Boox last year with TTS capability to listen to ebooks, but that device is lying idle now, and I am back to normal 'reading'. I wish I could have adopted the listening habits and give more rest to my straining eyes, but it didn't work for me. Perhaps my brain is a little bit orthodox about the concept of books.
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Two suggestions that might help. My mind wanders like yours, I think because the reading isn't moving quickly enough to force it to concentrate. You could speed up the playback until you don't have time to wander, and/or you could do something else to occupy your mind's excess capacity. Listen while you're doing something else that prevents you from reading, like cooking or whittling or playing solitaire. Like issybird.