Fastbook: Listen to audiobooks faster (2020)
&quot;This tool won’t be appropriate for all audiobook listeners. For many, the silences matter, and removing them would degrade the quality of the book. For many, listening at 2.5x would also degrade the quality of the book. So use this tool with caution.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s nice that this was also brought up. At least for me, even though I don&#x27;t listen to audiobooks, it&#x27;s too easy to become too &quot;performance-oriented&quot; when reading something. Meaning that ticking the box &quot;achievement unlocked, read another book&quot; becomes more important than what you really get out of the book. Did you now retain as much information as possible? Did you savor the work of art or just gulp it down? Ironically, if you don&#x27;t use tools like these carefully, listening to books may end up being even a bigger waste of time.