[furyofantares]

> I know you can do the same with audiobooks but it's more inconvenient

I don't find it inconvenient. I also don't follow the logic about it being someone else's pace. I pick playback speed depending on both the content and the performance.

[macintux]

Perhaps it's a question of learning style, or listening style, but with a printed book I can change the pace in the middle of a sentence, heck, the middle of a word, based on how distracted I am, how much I understand the context, etc.

With an audiobook I'm constantly missing something because I'm thinking through what I've just heard.

[furyofantares]

> With an audiobook I'm constantly missing something because I'm thinking through what I've just heard.

This is me and physical books! I can get through several pages without realizing I haven't taken in a single thing, and not have any idea how far back to go. I get far enough that scanning the text to work out where I got lost isn't an advantage and often I just give up.

[cinntaile]

Rewind to where you lost track. Several times if necessary.

[serial_dev]

Maybe some context. When I'm listening to audiobooks, I'm not just sitting there with my phone in my hand: I'm working out, cleaning, walking, cooking, bathing, etc, I'm doing all the great things that audiobooks let me do in parallel to reading a book, and that's great.

However, this results in me having a harder time quickly pausing, rewinding, changing speed, which in turn makes me reflect less on the content I'm reading.

[furyofantares]

That's probably pretty common. I do it while driving and find it very easy to change speed or rewind on the fly.

I think the fact that I am driving and have some amount of my focus on that is a bigger differentiator vs a physical book for me.