The speed adjustment is for all books. If I load a book that has a narator that speaks faster than normal then I may slow down the speed to double speed. I don't think triple speed is too fast though, but it may be because I listen to my screen reader at about 50 percent, and when I used the booksense, it was set to triple speed as well. So I'm used to it. There have been books that I have slowed down since I wanted to comprehend them more but over all triple speed suits me fine. To put it another way, if I'm reading a book that's 25 hours long, I don't want it to take 25 hours to read the book. There's just so much out there to read and consume. As you say, to each their own.
Regards, Wayne On 8/31/12, Christopher Chaltain <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I speed up the playback of my audio books, and I don't find that > it keeps me from enjoying a well read book at all. I don't speed it up > much, and I'm definitely not trying to crank it up as fast as I can > comprehend it, but I do find some readers, even good readers, to be a > bit slow. I agree about synthesized speech though, and I also don't > speed up my music or movies, but I don't think I'm being hypocritical > in this sense. > > On 31/08/12 14:40, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: >> Hi Wayne and Chuck, >> >> I am always amazed when people speed up audio book playback especially >> when >> the readers are as good as most of the Audible readers are. For me a >> large >> part of the enjoyment is the reading itself, of course also the story, >> but >> speeding up a well-read audio book to me would be the same as speeding up >> playback on a movie so that instead of the movie being 90 minutes I could >> listen to it in 30 or 40 minutes. The same goes for books in electronic >> text, I listen to Jaws and Voiceover all day and it's fine for work, but >> there is just no way in a thousand years that I listen to a good novel >> using >> a synthesized voice and there isn't a voice out there that is even a >> tenth >> as good as what a good reader can do. But to each his or her own I guess! >> >> Regards, >> Sieghard >> > > -- > Christopher (CJ) > chaltain at Gmail > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- Follow me on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/wcmerritt My websites: www.wayneism.com www.whitecaneday.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
