Audiobooks are pretty good but Shlup's right you pretty much need to discipline yourself not to drift off and think about other trout.

Actually I find myself doing that when reading sometimes too...and watching TV. Maybe it's somethin that happens more than we know.

It's no different than readingf once you train yourself to accept the information aurally as opposed to optically. Your brain still needs to do the same work with the info.

I've grown to really like them though. It helps when there;s an interesting reader ofc. Some authors are excellent writers but smurfing dull narrators so it can sometimes be a smurfing disaster but if I hear John Sessions or Stephen Fry or similar i'm hooked.