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I don't need to read them to know that
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Audiobooks my dude, they are fantastic for burning through literary slop. It's nice to have stuff like the hourus heresy for stuff like yard work or chores, something where it doesn't really matter if you're paying attention or if you hear everything. So if you miss something you don't really feel the need to rewind it or feel lost in the overall story.
I typically use communist theory for that. I'm gonna have to reread it a few times anyway, after all.
Eh, for me that would be too information dense. I'd drift off and have to back play it for context.
For really anything like geopolitics, economics, or philosophy I usually have to have a book in my hands.
Yeah, I hear ya, I do like to have a book in my hands (or at least text on a handheld screen) if I'm trying to internalise all the information in my first read through.
But I do tend to use listening to theory when I want to drift off from it and just want the effects of having to listen to something that dense, with the understanding that doing that as a sleep aid or for other emotional or physical effect is not a replacement for listening attentively or actually reading it.