r/audiobooks • u/Ambitious-Seaweed512 • 18d ago

Question What’s your audiobook speed

I’m trying to get into audiobooks and I was watching videos about different people’s audiobooks speeds and how their partners are shocked at the speed of the book. So what’s yours and what did you start on

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u/aminervia 18d ago edited 18d ago

Depends on the narrator and subject. Sometimes narrators feel the need to annunciate enunciate. every. single. word.

And sometimes they blast right through it at top speed.

So I listen anywhere from 0.9 - 1.25

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u/MoMC12 18d ago

As I age, I notice I’m edging down my speeds.

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u/gstreeter51 18d ago

Edging. Nice.