Try Listening to Your Literature
Audiobooks are less demanding—and maybe that’s a good thing.
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Audiobooks have never worked for me; as a rule, I don’t listen to them. I recognize this as my own failing, but while one is playing, I’m easily distracted. All it takes is one glance up at a poster on the street, or down at my phone, and I’m tuning out what I’m hearing. And unlike when I look away
