On: Everything must be paid for twice

[diego]

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 → diego]

1.0 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.

[Fnoord → stavros]

Not 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'.

[stavros → Fnoord]

I'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.

[strken → Fnoord]

I 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.

[perryizgr8 → stavros]

If 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.