When you read vs listen to a book, do you notice any specific differences in how you comprehend or absorb the material at hand?

I'm starting to learn about myself that I really need both. I'm reading Rick Rubin's book now after having listened to it and it feels like a completely different experience!

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Both is the way to go IMO! Currently reading & listening to Life, by Keith Richards. It is amazing. I discovered this method back in school, read Leviathan with a group of overachieving grad students who realized it wasn't in our curriculum, then listened to a delightfully narrated version read by a British guy. Epic.

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I think the thing is that reading involves a lot of abstraction and maybe the primary visual cortex, so it's a good way to explore the work at first; then you can listen later on to firm it all up and tie in the auditory cortex to really round out that neural map of the work.