To answer the title's question: yes. I listen to a lot of audiobooks, but quality and the amount of focus required varies a lot. Sometimes I put on some lightw

To answer the title's question: yes. I listen to a lot of audiobooks, but quality and the amount of focus required varies a lot. Sometimes I put on some lightweight audiobook or podcast while playing games or doing chores. For most lightweight content I crank it up to somewhere between 2x and 3x playback speed and still follow along just fine. Other times I'm dialed-in with an audiobook playing as I read along with the book. Most recently I've been doing this with Unsong, by Scott Alexander. The book is very engaging and detailed, so I'm fully immersed. For this book in particular it's useful to have an audiobook because I don't know how many of the references would be pronounced. Anything more challenging or technically-focused usually requires me to physically read it in order to fully process the content.