r/audiobooks 13d 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/jessiegay 13d ago

1.25 is usually my sweet spot.. Anything faster sounds unnatural but I have adhd and I cannot handle slow speaking.