[bkanber]

I'm an avid audiobook reader. (My wife gets annoyed when I call it "reading", but still.) I personally wouldn't use audiobooks for learning and assimilating brand-new content to a high level of detail. It's just too tough that way.

But I also find that that's rarely my goal when listening to an audiobook. Fiction is the obvious example. Unless you're studying a book for school or something, I think audio is a great way to take in a book. There's also "non-critical" non-fiction which I find works really well. Books like Sapiens or People's History of the United States, or books on management techniques, where you're more interested in the concepts and high-level material rather than retaining specific details. I would happily do audiobook for a book club, but not for a school assignment. That's just my experience though, results may vary.