I had lunch the other day with a fellow audiobook enthusiast. I mentioned that I listen to everything at high speed. It took a little getting used to but eventually I learned I absorbed more content. Similar, I suppose, to speedreading. Your brain can process incoming information much faster than the typical spoken word so it is constantly waiting for you eyes or ears to catch up! In fact, the other day I started a new book while driving to work - The Personality Code. (Yes, the audio version.) I was having difficulty following the dialog until I noticed my iPod was set to normal speed. Changed it to fast and I was back on track! To learn how to make your podcasts and mp3 audiobooks play faster on the iPod, see the rest of this article.

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It’s back! My favorite podcast aggregator is back online and is in the process of moving to open source. This just made my day. The dopplerradio.net site hadn’t been updated since March 2007 so I was beginning to worry. Doppler is the only aggregator that I’ve found that can do nearly everything I want in a podcasting program. Such as automagically…
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