I often find myself reading something on the bus or subway, but then not understand anything I read. This seems to be because of the constant noises. Not even instrumental music helps, as that distracts me as well and also does not always match the theme of the book.

The best working one in noisy places seems to be white noise, with complete silence being the best overall. How do yall handle such situations?

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 days ago

    No, but it depends on the sounds. I can read in a park when there aren’t people being loud. Nature tunes out. And I can read while listening to instrumental music. I can’t tune out human voices.