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> there's nothing inherently good about getting knowledge through books

Strongly disagree. Reading a book requires patience and comfort with delayed gratification. Not only does it require it; I think it also develops it.



I don't think of a book as delayed gratification because books don't take that long. Consider, you click on a link and get a video your first thought is "do I have time for this?"

Watching a MOOK's is a huge commitment where reading a book covering the same material is fast. Video brings great value and can be more relaxing, but reading is generally just faster.


Which is why Audiobooks are popular & the most used feature is 2X playback on Audible.*

*No stats on this. They really don't have any features in their apps, so pretty confident here.




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