What are the difference between audiobook listening or reading? Do they have the same benefits? I feel like there'd be a bigger chance to become at master of rhetoric by making my inner voice read the text in my head as opposed to simply listening to it. But I don't know if that's actually the case and internet isn't helping.

And I know retention isn't a benefit unique to reading, it is provably the same if you don't multitask while listening to an audiobook.

>>24517176 (OP)
>What are the difference between audiobook listening or reading?

>Do they have the same benefits?
No, you can speed up audiobooks and get through them quicker but it's harder to skip ahead or completely lose yourself in the story. You can multitask with audiobooks but you miss out on seeing the layout and spelling (i.e. for puns). Both have their benefits.
>I feel like there'd be a bigger chance to become at master of rhetoric by making my inner voice read the text in my head as opposed to simply listening to it. But I don't know if that's actually the case and internet isn't helping.
I've found audiobooks helped me to pick up different speaking rhythms subconsciously, which is important for rhetoric. I recommend listening to rhetoric book and then pausing and analysing the written text. A nice beginner one is Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric.
>And I know retention isn't a benefit unique to reading, it is provably the same if you don't multitask while listening to an audiobook.
I find when I recall part of audiobook, I will often recall what I was doing and where I was when I listened to it, like I remember being in the yogurt section at the supermarket during the battle scene in The Charterhouse of Parma even though they are completely unrelated. I also remember how the reader said specific lines that helps them stick in my head, like an earworm.

>>24517176 (OP)
a written book is more suited for careful and thorough study, obviously
that's all

My problem with audiobooks is im going to being be keyed in 100% of the time and going back and rewinding parts sounds like it would be annoying. With books I can go at my own pace

>>24517176 (OP)
there are some books i'd never be able to get through as an audiobook on the first go through, whereas some books feel very well suited to the medium. i thought i'd enjoy the faerie queen as an audiobook, since it's poetry, but on my first readthrough, it was completely incomprehensible to me. after reading it in print, however, i am now able to listen to the audiobook very easily. i'm not sure exactly what makes one book easier to take in as audio and another, but the authors prose is certainly a factor. authors with a languid style, such as wharton, make for good audiobooks, whereas books with much information crammed into each paragraph as possible, such as moby-dick, or books with complex syntax,such as the work of henry james, make very bad audiobooks, at least for a first read through. the best i can say is you must judge them on a case by case basis.

>>24517176 (OP)
I am a bigtime audiobook enjoyer.
But, I readily admit I retained a great deal more from reading physical books.

But audiobooks are convenient, low effort, and can be squeezed in wherever. If you're coming home from work with the energy/time to put 6 hours into physically reading Russian lit you are probably a half-assing poorfag with no social life who will remain poor.

>>24517176 (OP)
Benefit lol. Are you the type who believes they can learn a new language by listening to Assimil while sleeping?