Yea it can be. But really depends on both the book and the reader. And what you're trying to get out of it. Some readers are excruciatingly slow, so 1.25 just

Yea it can be. But really depends on both the book and the reader. And what you're trying to get out of it. Some readers are excruciatingly slow, so 1.25 just makes them sound normal. Other readers speed along, so 1x is like 1.5x on other books. Some books need to be played at 1x if you're gonna follow the intricacies. Others with neither dense logical argument or thick, nuanced soul, like bestseller nonfictions where you have a sequence of little stories to illustrate "what studies have shown", can profitably be listened to quite fast, especially when also allaying their boringness with a Geometry Wars or Kingdom Rush addiction. (You might say, why read them then? Personally: as an excuse to play Kingdom Rush.) If I'm not too into a part I'll even go faster than 2x to pick up the gist unto it catches my interest again. Really, it's just like normal reading. Any displined reader has different speeds depending on the how much time the material is worth (Adler's How to Read a Book gives a nice model).