I got to the point where when I was listening, when I was screen printing, I would listen at double the speed of normal, because I got so used to listening and hearing what I was listening to that I could pick up and comprehend and discern even at double speed, and so that allowed me to listen to a book that would normally take 15 hours, I was able to listen to it in 7 1⁄2 hours, and so there was a lot that could be done, and sometimes I would print all day, you know, Saturdays I would usually have 2 or 3 orders to fill, I'd have to print those out, sometimes 7 or 8 hours behind the printing press, I'd get a whole book in one day, which is something I never could have done if I sat down to read it, and this is where I want to compare actually reading it, and somebody says, well yes, but if you read it, it would take you longer, therefore your mind would have more time to comprehend it, your mind would have more time to digest it, and you're seeing it, and there's the combination of the visual and the thought of understanding it, and I believe that that's true, and I do believe there is some added value to reading a book, but I think it can also be a, it can sort of be a double-edged sword, because I know that for myself, sometimes reading words on a page, I read sometimes very slowly, and it's hard for me to maintain thought on the train of thought as I'm going through, and this is actually an issue for a lot of people, when they're reading, they tend to read slower than they think, and so you finish reading a page, and you realize you didn't really comprehend what you just read, and you have to start over and read the whole thing again, and I tend to retain more of what I hear than what I read on a page, especially if it's something that I'm learning, if it's something that I'm interested in, I tend to connect with it, and listening is better for me, but if I am trying to, if I am trying to investigate something down to the level of picking out the grammar, like for instance, when I'm studying for a sermon, if I'm trying to determine grammar and syntax and things like that, then I need to see it, because just listening to it, sometimes I might miss nuances, so I'll give you an example, every week I prepare multiple sermons, my main sermon is my Sunday morning, Lord's Day sermon, but I also teach on Wednesday nights, I teach Thursday mornings at set free, and when the academy is in session, I teach Thursday evenings at the academy, so sometimes I'm preparing multiple lessons per week, not every week, but sometimes during the year I'm slammed with lesson preparation, and what I will do is the text that I am preaching on, I will read it, I print it out on a piece of paper, I don't even use my bible, I print it out on a piece of paper, and I take a pen and I read it slowly, and I write and I circle and I make marks and I connect nouns and pronouns and I connect the verbs, how they're functioning in the sentence and I write and draw pictures, but again, that's not really, that's not reading, that is, I'm doing the work of exegesis, that's going through the process of studying the text, but that's not what I do with my daily bible reading, my daily bible reading, I put it on and I listen to it because I'm simply wanting to hear God's word and I want to absorb God's word, so I think that there's a place for both, and I think the question is, what are you hoping to accomplish? So let's go back to yesterday's program, yesterday's program I recommended reading a book that is an extra biblical book, whether it be a Christian book or maybe an outside Christian work, maybe a fictional book, like I mentioned the works of George Orwell yesterday that I had read a few years ago, and I said I read it, but actually the truth is, I listened to it, and so the question is, is that a lie? And that's another thing I've had to deal with, sort of, when I say I've read it, well, I feel like if I've listened to a book, then I have gone through it, I have comprehended it, I know what is in the book, but sometimes I'm careful, because I don't want to ever misrepresent myself, a lot of times I'll say I've gone through the book, and when I say I've gone through the book, normally that's my way of, rather than saying I've read it, I will say I've gone through it, as if to say I've listened to it, and so, I don't know, you know, I'm not trying to, I'm certainly not trying to be dishonest in any way, but if I've listened to it, I've gone through it, if I've listened to it, I've understood it, and for me, it works, and I think it can work for you, if you are a person like me who is a person who learns by listening, but some people aren't that way, some people need to see the page, some people do better by seeing the page, and I don't think that necessarily one is always greater than the other, I think it just depends on what you're trying to accomplish, so I recommend to you, this year, again, trying to incorporate more into your reading list, more into your taking in of information, and whether you do that by reading it, whether you do that by listening to it, I think is really going to be up to you and your particular learning style, I don't think there's any shame in listening to a book, certainly, there can be great value in it, and again, some of you may be saying, well, I think it has to be read to really have the value, I don't necessarily agree, but I do understand that there can be some things that are gleaned in reading that maybe you don't get in listening, but I think the other way is true as well, sometimes there are things you get in listening that you don't necessarily get in reading, and one of those things is consistency, when you're, again, when I'm reading, oftentimes, I find myself getting lost and having to go back, and these are just little issues that I have, but when I'm listening, there's a consistent, and it's a consistency that continues throughout the book, and I like that, and so it's been valuable for me, again, as I said from the start of today's program, this is all opinion, you can take it and do with it what you will, but I will say this, in this year, as it's coming up, I would recommend that you engage in some form of either reading or listening to good books, and a lot of books today are available in multiple formats, you can get them on your phone to read, you can get them in on an e-reader, you can get the hardback, paperback edition, or you can get the audio book, and my recommendation would certainly be to do one of those things, and increase your reading in 2021.