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comment by veen

I just finished Dataclysm, the book from that guy who runs the OkCupid blog. If you're looking for a light statistics-y read, it's a nice one, although I liked Nate Silvers book better as a whole. Wouldn't get it as an audiobook though, there are too many graphs in it for that.

    But that's probably 'cuz I listen to my books and I listen to 'em at 2x. Or 3x if they're really boring.

Finally, your secret unraveled! Personally I cannot bear more than 1.5x before I start to a) hate the way it sounds and b) lose track of what they're saying.





kleinbl00  ·  3646 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, shit - when I'm just readin' readin' I'm hella faster than that. Audible tells me that Stephen King's It is 44 hours long for 1100 pages. I read It in three days in 6th grade. But readin' readin' is something I rarely have the time for. Audiobooks? walk the kid to the park, suck down an hour and a half. Ride the bike to Torrance, suck down an hour and a half. Adjust the valve lash on an Italian superbike, suck down four fucking novels.

Unexpected benefit of switching to Android: the fast voice on Audible is better. iOS shreds at 2x and sounds like a robot auctioneer. 1.5x is all you can do. Android at 2x sounds better than iOS at 1x and 3x is terrible but intelligible.