Why Listening to Audiobooks at Normal Speed Is a Waste of Time

The article about "gridification" in music on the front page seems apropos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150163

> [...] it substitutes a corrupted symbolic representation of felt life, one defined by machinic precision and optimization [...] that surrounds us increasingly presents a morphology of unfolding that no human being actually inhabits.

1. Not everything is about efficiency.

2. People don't all have the same goals as you.

3. These kinds of posts are awful

alternatively, consider that humans have a breathing, speaking/listening, and memory timing link which has been evolving for 100Ks of years

If it's too slow, I tune out, if it's too fast I tune out.

Stop gatekeeping people’s enjoyment of audiobooks.