Yes, I find it harder to follow along audiobooks. Like if my reading comprehension is 100%, my audiobook comprehension is 75%. In practice this means that I am

Yes, I find it harder to follow along audiobooks. Like if my reading comprehension is 100%, my audiobook comprehension is 75%. In practice this means that I am unable to listen to most novels as audiobooks, unless the writing style either has a lot of meandering / redundancy (so when I space out for a while, I still understand what's happening) or the writing style is very active and engaging, especially first person narration without a lot of characters to keep track of. I can "get" The Martian, I cannot however listen to a Russian novel. In practice I try to optimize for easier books on audio, especially nonfiction, as there's not a ton of characters to remember. I do find that I am able to comprehend harder nonfiction books, as many of them are organized more like a series of essays. But most of the fiction I listen to is very "pop" fiction like Red Shirts.