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A friend of mine shared this receipt from her local library which shows how much money she's saved by using it. (lemmy.world)

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago

I'm always jealous of people who can listen to podcasts or audiobooks. I genuinely can't listen to them and do something else at the same time so I have to sit twiddling my thumbs the entire time and get antsy. If I try listen and maybe do the dishes or something, I'll blink and have no idea what's been said for the past 15 minutes and have to go back anyway. It kind of sucks.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Same here. But with eBooks too. Sometimes my brain drifts for a while and I reread the same paragraph 5 times. So what I do is "double-dip". I listen to and read the ebook at the same time. This way my brain has no chance of escaping. This has also helped me with my English; oh, so that's how you pronounce albeit?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

I've found that I have the most success with stuff I know fairly well. I'll listen to Tolkien, Asimov, or King because I've read the books 10 times and if I miss a bit, I still know what is going on.

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