Blind person here. I actually wonder if audiobooks don't have similar effects, on some people at least. For a while, I used to read a lot of books, mostly not r

Blind person here. I actually wonder if audiobooks don't have similar effects, on some people at least. For a while, I used to read a lot of books, mostly not requiring much thinking. Lit RPG was my favorite genre). I mostly used to read ebooks with speech synthesis at ungodly speeds which I'm used to, so I could finish medium-sized books in a single day of binge reading. I remember having book marathons, which were not that dissimilar from watching a whole season of one show on Netflix in a day. I didn't have to exert much effort, I just used the continuous reading function of my screen reader and let it speak. Not going to sleep until very late at night just to know how that damn book will end is also no news for me. The fact that there are no real breaks between parts, as in show episodes, makes it even worse. Sure, there are chapters, but switching between them in audiobooks is automatic, instantaneous, and they're sometimes short enough that I don't even pay that much attention to it. I sometimes watch TV shows with audio description, a special audio track overlaid on top of the normal one, with a narrator describing the visual aspects, and I don't enjoy them as much as books. That form of entertainment seems to require much more concentration and I'm often tempted to just stop. I think that for us blind people, the books vs shows thing may be completely reversed.