katydee comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Podcast - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 14 April 2011 07:16:59AM 7 points [-]

I find most spoken audio very comfortable at double speed. Whether this matches reading speed depends on your reading speed. I also find spoken audio less fatiguing than reading for most fiction and most popular nonfiction. I am less prone to being derailed from the book. This is where I read for a bit and then find something else more compelling, such as a blog or a rationalist forum, or where I pick up the book and then put it back down having resolved to continue tomorrow. Even if reading-time is shorter when I read, calendar time is often very long.

Comment author: katydee 14 April 2011 02:08:25PM 1 point [-]

Interesting and informative post, thanks! I'll have to try the double-speed method. I suspect that this would still not match my reading speed (which is very fast indeed), but would still make audiobooks and the like more efficient in the cases where they are convenient.