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If you listen to an audiobook do you say you've read it?
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You heard a book.
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Only thing comin out my speakers is mr kanye omari
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no you listened to the book
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Stick my d*** in your ear. F*** what you heard
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so your **** fits in a ear? Sucks to hear . Maybe you can make up for it in otherways
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audiobooks are my jam right now
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You be listening to 50 shades of grey in the car in the morning b4 work op?? 
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How is retention with listening to audiobooks vs reading the book?
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Why would anyone who can read, want to hear a book being read to them instead of reading it themselves?
To me that's like watching someone else play a game. It's still kind of enjoyable but it's not the same.
To me that's like watching someone else play a game. It's still kind of enjoyable but it's not the same.
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not as good for me because I get distracted doing other things while i'm listening and lose focus on the audio
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Like everyone said, you listened to the book. Rather read because I don't think I can follow completely while hearing it.
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I think its really based on what type of teaching you take to that dictates how well you take to the material.
The classic quote is something along the lines of "if you tell me I will forget, but if I see with my eyes and touch with my hands I will retain forever"
I don't think it's 100% completely true but I believe for a majority of us it's because of how evolution has given more weight to the eyes and hands in order to learn (e.g. making tools, hunting animals, differentiating between good things and harmfuls ones).
That being said, an audiobook is functional. can listen to it while using other senses for other things (driving). Great salespeople have been using audiotapes for motivation for decades.
Audiobooks, while may not encourage as much retention, are great. Also to factor in is the speaker quality. Something about a good orator makes a books have more depth and meaning.
I've been listening to Mastery by Robert Greene for a while now. Truth being told, I would have finished this book a long time ago if I had it in book form, hands down. But I enjoy the narration of it and I like to listen to it while commuting. On the flip side of this is that I have the book How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie and also the audiobook and I could never get to read the entire book but I listened to the whole audiobook.
Worth a try imho.
The classic quote is something along the lines of "if you tell me I will forget, but if I see with my eyes and touch with my hands I will retain forever"
I don't think it's 100% completely true but I believe for a majority of us it's because of how evolution has given more weight to the eyes and hands in order to learn (e.g. making tools, hunting animals, differentiating between good things and harmfuls ones).
That being said, an audiobook is functional. can listen to it while using other senses for other things (driving). Great salespeople have been using audiotapes for motivation for decades.
Audiobooks, while may not encourage as much retention, are great. Also to factor in is the speaker quality. Something about a good orator makes a books have more depth and meaning.
I've been listening to Mastery by Robert Greene for a while now. Truth being told, I would have finished this book a long time ago if I had it in book form, hands down. But I enjoy the narration of it and I like to listen to it while commuting. On the flip side of this is that I have the book How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie and also the audiobook and I could never get to read the entire book but I listened to the whole audiobook.
Worth a try imho.
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