Most of the audiobooks I listen to are not appropriate for my kids to hear (murder mysteries, romances, etc.) so I have to squeeze those books into my daily walk and times when the girls are asleep.
Occasionally, if a narrator is a bit of a faster talker, I'll have to scale it back to 1.75 or 1.5 to keep the speech from becoming garbles, but most of the time 2x is the sweet spot for me.
Most of the time, at double speed, the narration is maybe just a little bit quicker than normal speech. Audiobook narrators tend to speak very slowly, to the point that the pace sounds unnatural. Being able to mentally cut that time remaining in half really makes it feel like the story is flying by, and I'm accomplishing a lot of reading, which is especially helpful when a book is really long or otherwise intimidating. When I listen at double speed, the full time is still displayed, but the seconds tick by twice as fast. The apps I use to listen to audiobooks show either how much time is left in the book or how much time is left in the current chapter. The words go by so quickly that I have to listen closely to be able to follow the story. When I play a book at double speed, however, there are no real pauses or gaps where I have the opportunity to get distracted by my to-do list, or by a random memory from high school, or by whatever wants to pop into my head. When audiobooks play at normal speed, I have a tendency to tune out what I'm hearing and let my mind drift to other things. While most narrators still read more slowly at double speed than I do on my own, the gap in speed is a lot smaller when I accelerate the narration. For me to feel like listening to an audiobook is worthwhile, I generally don't want it to take much more time than reading the physical book would take. Because I read quickly, I don't have the patience to listen to a narrator read slowly. I know listening at double speed sounds like a crazy thing to do, but here, for Top Ten Tuesday's audio freebie topic, are some of the reasons why it works for me: What really got me hooked was the discovery that I could speed up the narration of the books I listen to.
I have listened to audiobooks on and off over the past several years, but it has only been since last spring that I have become a truly avid listener.
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