I’ve written in the past that I’m an Audible ™ customer and own many audiobooks. I’d try and listen to them while I’m walking the dog, taking a walk or working out, I say try because I can’t do it.
As a voracious reader who polishes off at least three books every two weeks, more if I have some free time this never made any sense to me.
Then I took a reading speed test.
I read at 650wpm, and the average audiobook reads at 150wpm. That might also explain why I’m incredibly impatient if someone does a power point presentation and commits the cardinal sin of simply reading the points they have up on the screen.
I tried upping the reading speed in AUDIBLE ™ which is available in the app on the lower left corner- first I went to 2x normal speed and it sounded laughable, so I lowered it to 1.5x speed and its better. Let’s see if this holds my attention.
I’m not sure it worked, but here’s hoping.
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