Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for April 27, 2024

I’m missing the joke. Audiobooks do have adjustable speed settings for that reason.

It is a long story.

… as long as he has matching speed listening …

I would think for him, reading it in binary code would be faster.

To boost his reading speed and comprehension, Oldbot listened to “The Evelyn Wood Seven-Day Speed Reading and Learning Program” audiobook.

I downloaded the public domain version of Frankenstein for my early generation of Kindle with a somewhat primitive text-to-speech feature. When I ran out of anything else to listen to at work, I would let that drone on and on, not really comprehending what is going on in the story.

When I tune in late to a live stream, I often run it at 1.5 x speed to catch up, then it automatically cuts back to real-time.

Lemme guess a couple of chipmunks wrote that?

If Oldbot listens to that, he could get his head cut off.

it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it is the New York Times.

I’m training to break the 4-minute Milton.

What the dickens is he going on about?

Since it’s an audio book, it’s speed listening.

If he’s speed reading, wouldn’t it be 1.5x the best of times and 1.5x the worst of times?

And the thing in his hand probably has more than a thousand times the amount of memory that he does.