Listening to the Page

Tony Grooms on “Reading” in the Audiobook Age

A friend told me that he had recently downloaded an audiobook that deeply interested him, and he couldn’t wait to listen to it. Five minutes into the program, he realized he had “read” the book before. His forgetting likely had as much to do with his being “of a certain age,” I teased, as it had to do with the quality of the book.

Following up on a theor…