This is interesting and I’m glad to see this. I’ve always been an avid reader and until recently, I could read words on a page for hours on end but really could not sustain my attention to an audiobook for more than a few minutes, and always felt like my retention was very poor when I tried listening to books. But that was always a me thing.

My brother and wife have both been avid audiobook readers for a number of years and I always picked up on them feeling mildly insecure about it, as if they weren’t “really” reading when it was an audiobook.

Oddest of all, in the past year or so, my brain has completely flipped and now I mainly read via audiobook and text on a page can’t hold my attention for long.