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I'm about 99% on audibooks, especially due to my weekly commute to Dallas from Austin.  I have trouble focusing when it's non-fiction, though occassionaly one has kept my attention.  I've posted most of what I've listened to in the Scifi/Fantasy thread, but I'll post some of them here later.

Interesting - I have a much easier time following non-fiction than fiction on audiobooks.  I think when I lose the train of which character is which it's a bit more unwieldy to go back and figure it out. 

I'm doing audio mostly because I have some age-related vision problems.  I'm generally curious about the "cognitive" differences in digesting audio vs. visual reading. 

 

I'm curious about that as well. I can listen to an audiobook while I'm doing something else, like driving or folding laundry, and I feel like I retain it pretty well, but if I try to just sit down and listen to one, my mind will wander and I'll barely pay attention, much less retain anything.  For non-fiction books, if it's something I have a really strong interest in, I can listen and retain.  Like for instance, I listed to a book about Narcissim while going through a divorce.  That held my attention really well as it got me thinking about a lot of things.  However, I've tried some self-help or professinal development books, and I just can't pay attention or retain it.

I will say on the fiction, if it's a really complex book with a ton of characters (and those characters disappear for large portions at a time), I sometimes have difficulty.  I just finished the Stormlight series and in the later books I was constantly confusing which character was which.

 

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