> If you have tried listening to audiobooks before but find it’s hard to pay attention, I recommend you start only with re-reading. It is hard to convince peopl

> If you have tried listening to audiobooks before but find it’s hard to pay attention, I recommend you start only with re-reading. It is hard to convince people of this but I am sure it’s true: Re-reading is often much more rewarding than reading for the first time. I do this with long series, like Master & Commander or A Song of Ice and Fire, but for the opposite reason: so that I don't have to listen closely. I listen while I'm doing other things that take a variable amount of concentration. I know those books so well that there is little lost when I miss a random passage. But it's still comforting background noise. The re-listening is often more rewarding, I agree. I look forward to the especially good bits and learn more and more of their foreshadowing.