That's a fair question, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't listen faster. You should listen at the speed you feel comfortable at (and potentially work on incre

That's a fair question, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't listen faster. You should listen at the speed you feel comfortable at (and potentially work on increasing that speed.) Some recordings of the same book have a several-hour difference between the different recordings. Different narrators read at different speeds, and most of them aim for clarity to all listeners. I don't think there's any specific reason to listen to the slowest recording, just like I don't think there's any specific reason not to speed up a recording to where you are comfortabl.