In addition to the convenience of a portable library on your phone, tablet or PC, software developers have been producing tools to enable ‘speed reading’ for audiobook listeners – one cryptically called: ‘Faster Audio’. The reader can complete an audiobook in 75% 0r 50% of the time by increasing the pace of narration without altering the pitch. Your three hour audiobook done and dusted in 90 minutes without having to listen to Alvin from the chipmunks!
An interesting piece on how audiobooks have grown in comparison to other formats: