/lit/ - Literature

As far as we know there's no significant difference between reading or listening to a book as long as you're focused on what you're doing.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244016669550

The reason why Audiobook listeners are almost always shit at retaining information is because they insist on listening to a book while they're doing chores, commuting or even doing video editing. The only other barrier would be being a brainlet that lets unknown words slip through without pausing the recording to look them up.