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Originally Posted by elphenor
there is something that your brain does when it reads words off a page that is different from what you get from hearing spoken words
when I was kid I just liked reading ****in everything from the ingredients on cereal boxes to warning labels to any book I could get my hands on
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that something different like I said is the extra step of converting characters into words in your mind. It's not magic.
If you copied the book down by hand as you read it you would remember it much better. That's the same reason that teachers stress you take notes rather than just read the slide show. Even if you never go back over the notes, just writing them down makes you remember more. Once again cause you're spending more time on each word.
This can be overcome with audiobooks by relistening multiple times to the same portion.