How to listen to audiobooks faster | Speed Reading

Are you intimidated to turn on the speed on your audiobooks? This video is about how I learned to speed-listen/speed-read to audiobooks at 2.0-3.0 speed and actually understand and enjoy it! I will share some tips on how I learned how to read faster and listen to books faster! #booktube #speedread

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[RollingThroughLifeMinistries]

I started at 1.25 and quickly went to 1.5 and every book raised the speed. I was shocked at how easily I adjusted to the faster speed. I actually enjoy the book more at the faster speed.

[pmjf]

I feel you! I can't even watch YouTube videos in normal speed after trying 2x

[KarenLMagno]

Great tip on listening to the beginning of a new audiobook at a lower speed. I always find myself rewinding at the beginning when listening at higher speeds.

[dawsonbell]

I was about to close this video until I heard you mention reading the book while listening to it. Mad at myself for not thinking to do this, amazing tip!!

[artiss]

I'm Always listening at 1.75 speed when I listen to a audiobook

[lexsodz]

Tx! all these tips were great!! I've done all except reading AND listening! That's genius! looking fwd to doing it.

I feel the same about using headphones in both ears helps AND also gradually increasing the speed throghout the book. I always start at 1.0x bc I want to get a feel of the readers actual voice and then keep bumping it up.

I also do listening meditation... where I go into a meditation pose, close my eyes and just focus on listen. Having eyes open takes a lot of focus away from audio processing....

If I'm somewhat familiar with the material I can jack it up to 3.5x speed.

Also, listening at a super high speed (i.e., 3.5x) then lowering to a slower but still high speed (i.e., 2.5) make it seems relatively easier and is a great way to increase speed for the session. Kinda like a warm-up. Jim Kwik uses this for reading physical (non-audio book).

Lol listened to this at 3x speed. Nice chipmunk voice;)

[FirstLastFirstLast]

listened to this vid at 4x speed. i must go even faster

[jjava.bean]

Depending on the information density of the content, too.

I listened to Twilight ironically during my most bored stint of the pandemic and at one point Bella's simp monologues 🙄 got so exhausting I listened at much higher speed or I just skipped entirely. But then my non-fiction books really came for me.... 😭

I had already read Myth of Sisyphus physically so my cocky ass was listening at left lane speeds... but I couldn't tho?! Sometimes, I couldn't just breeze past the severity of what just been said to me?! I had to pause. I *had* to stop and smell the roses. In fact, listening to it with emotion and inflection made a deeper impression on me than black voiceless print did in my head.

When I listened to Karl Marx's Capital, it was even worse. Sometimes I had to just stop listening entirely, and ruminate for hours. I had to play around with the concepts I just heard, dissect them in my head, before the next listen.

I definitely couldn't just make my brain binge communism and nihilism the same way it did Dances With Wolves and Under The Skin 🤷🏻‍♀️

[nadal]

I always listen with headphones. Glad you mentioned it

[Ronium]

Great topic! Roughly what’s your ratio of reading physical books vs audiobooks? Or do you typically listen to the audiobook while reading?

[aishatuabdullahi]

Amazing.. thanks for sharing. It helps me a lot.

[emilyrogers]

Thanks for sharing your tips. I have moved from 1 to 1.5 to 1.75. I tried 2, but had to back it down. Working my way up a little at a time!

[odelyalevy]

Good video. Thank you for sharing. I’ll subscribe to your channel if you are talking about books and reading. 👍💫