My experience with that was horrible, because I had to take notes on what I was hearing. Unfortunately, the book was only available audio format, with narration that was slow and somewhat repetitive. Speeding it up helped. Also, there were lots of references to themes and topics in other chapters of the book. Thank goodness the reference materials were published on the author’s web site, because if someone read a list like that to me, I’d probably quit after the first five minutes.
Taking notes meant that I would only have to go through the listening process once, and could keep what points were relevant or useful for future reference. The book was about foreign language study (see below), and had a lot of great ideas. I probably would not repeat the audiobook experience for something needed to study, though, because it was more work than if I’d just read it in the first place and used bookmarks.
