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Originally Posted by sealbeater
I don't think I implied it was hard. Only that listening to books when you know how to read is lazy.
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I don't drive very often but I don't find the experience of listening to books a very enlightening or entertaining one. I find having to constantly direct my attention towards my ears to be a tiresome one.
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You appear to be contradicting yourself. How can a task you find too tiresome to be enlightening or entertaining be also the lazy option? If there is merit to choosing the more difficult option you should be taking on the challenge of learning the skills needed to listen and comprehend audiobooks.
l freely admit that I'm simply too *lazy* to practice paying attention to complicated material with my ears (the last time I regularly listened to books they contained much simpler material) when I can just pick up my tablet and have read the book in a tenth of the time using already well practiced skills. I do see merit in practicing listening skills so I've been listening to the Great Courses where no written option exists, sweetened by linking it to working on my embroidery so that even if I fail to retain much of the lecture I have another bit of my current project done.