I think it really depends on your reading speed. If you can read at 500 wpm, then it’s probably faster for you to just read the book than search around for a podcast and then listen to said podcast. I do agree, though, that reading a summary or a blog about the topic is often a good replacement for reading an entire book.
then it’s probably faster for you to just read the book than search around for a podcast and then listen to said podcast
I’m having trouble seeing how that’d ever be the case. In my experience searching for a podcast rarely takes more than a few minutes, so let’s ignore that part of the equation.
If a book normally takes 10 hours to read, let’s say you’re a particularly fast reader and can read 5x as fast as the typical person (which I’m skeptical of). That’d mean it still takes 2 hours to read the book. Podcast episodes are usually about an hour. But if you’re able to read 5x faster that probably implies that you’re able to listen to the podcast at at least 2x speed if not 3x, in which case the podcast would only take 0.5 hours to go through, which is 4x faster than it’d take to read the book.
I think it really depends on your reading speed. If you can read at 500 wpm, then it’s probably faster for you to just read the book than search around for a podcast and then listen to said podcast. I do agree, though, that reading a summary or a blog about the topic is often a good replacement for reading an entire book.
I’m having trouble seeing how that’d ever be the case. In my experience searching for a podcast rarely takes more than a few minutes, so let’s ignore that part of the equation.
If a book normally takes 10 hours to read, let’s say you’re a particularly fast reader and can read 5x as fast as the typical person (which I’m skeptical of). That’d mean it still takes 2 hours to read the book. Podcast episodes are usually about an hour. But if you’re able to read 5x faster that probably implies that you’re able to listen to the podcast at at least 2x speed if not 3x, in which case the podcast would only take 0.5 hours to go through, which is 4x faster than it’d take to read the book.