huge fan of audiobooks, there are lots of good ones, and you can pretty much search for them like regular books—very good % have audio versions at this point (thank the ipod). check Audible.com. Obviously books that have significant math or charts are a non-starter, but many good psych/business/biographies/history and popular science are available, not to mention fiction.
try changing speed settings. my setup is audible app on the iphone, it supports cloud storage (convenient) and has up to 3x speedup. I listen to non-fiction at 3x easily at this point (and can probably do 4x if they make it available), and fiction at 1.5 (1x feels slow at this point, so it seems I overclocked my brain a bit!)
Audiobooks are great for commute and other situations that require your bodily presence but not your brain (shopping, etc). They reduce my annoyance/stress level dealing with these things.
Some personal experiences:
huge fan of audiobooks, there are lots of good ones, and you can pretty much search for them like regular books—very good % have audio versions at this point (thank the ipod). check Audible.com. Obviously books that have significant math or charts are a non-starter, but many good psych/business/biographies/history and popular science are available, not to mention fiction.
try changing speed settings. my setup is audible app on the iphone, it supports cloud storage (convenient) and has up to 3x speedup. I listen to non-fiction at 3x easily at this point (and can probably do 4x if they make it available), and fiction at 1.5 (1x feels slow at this point, so it seems I overclocked my brain a bit!)
Audiobooks are great for commute and other situations that require your bodily presence but not your brain (shopping, etc). They reduce my annoyance/stress level dealing with these things.