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I generally read audiobooks at 1.5x because 1.0 seems terribly slow to me. This more or less matches my reading pace for printed books, so 16 hours seems right.
by diego 5y ago
I generally read audiobooks at 1.5x because 1.0 seems terribly slow to me. This more or less matches my reading pace for printed books, so 16 hours seems right.
- stavros 5y ago1.0 is so slow that I wonder if they record the narrator, then slow them down by a third. It's much slower than people talk.
- perryizgr8 5y agoIf I am doing something else while listening, it helps to have it slow down a bit. Maybe that's why audiobooks slow it down from the get go.
- Fnoord 5y agoNot everyone is native English speaker, and slow pace allows you to get immersed. That people want 1,5 speed or do two things at same time is a sign of our time (appropriate content is cheap snd widely available but we don't have more available leisure time). Society doesn't want people have abundant leisure time, hence 'Bullshit Jobs'.
- strken 5y agoI slow down some narrators and speed up others because I like content delivered at a specific speed. Leisure time is a reason, but not the only reason.
- stavros 5y agoI'm not a native English speaker either. The thing here is that audiobooks are quite a bit slower than normal speech, which is what we've been trained on all our lives. People want 1.5 speed because that's what gets the narrator back to a normal speaking speed.