Changing my Reading Strategy

[Davino]

Books are quite time consuming and I got mid-to-low value for the huge amount of focused time and energy spent.

I've transitioned to audiobooks for 80% of my input. I still do 20% reading for dense books that are worthy of my full dedicated time.

Sharing this in case you've felt stuck in your reading habits and want something to speed it up. I'm using audible, tried a few before but I'm finally sticking with that one.

[Raze]

Audible doesn’t speed it up when your reading speed is faster than listening 

[LordFall]

Don't you find that you forget a lot of the stuff in audiobooks? I like to take notes when I read and I listened to half of the Fiat Standard as an audiobook and I recall general trends but I really mostly remember like 3 main points out of hours of listening. 

I would highly question auditory retention but I think for less important books it makes sense if it's more inspirational than technical. 

Edited 32 minutes ago by LordFall