I have read my last ever book.

TL;DR: Wish you the best. Listen to audio-books while not doing anything. Try to learn Braille and get a Braille Reader.

Really sad to hear that... Can't really do much but wish you the best moving forward and hopefully life gives back to you.

Also... Haven't really researched the topic but I have seen a Braille Reader... Admittedly it was a larger one than what you would find in a person's home since it was in a specialized library, but since then the technology probably got developed quite a lot.

In my mind it's even possible to do a "kindle" version of such a reader by sending an impulse to make the letters appear, instead of just raising the pins... Anyhow...

What's important is... If you learn Braille, you will be able to "read" again with another sense of yours and this one would feel like actual reading this time (instead of just listening to a book), since your neural network will re-wire itself and make these connections.

Most people that listen to audiobooks do that while "multi-tasking"... Thing is... Multi-tasking isn't really a thing in the way most people think it is and that division of attention impairs the experience (source... actually did experimental research on the topic when I was preparing to do my thesis).

If I was dealt the same hand by life I would try to completely immerse myself in the audiobook (it helps when the reader is really good). After a while, once my Braille reading skills improve I would try to read and listen at the same time to help improve even further (I've seen people with visual impairment read as fast as someone with their eyesight intact).
The moment I hit that point I would switch to Braille.

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