I think I can actually understand both sides. I was a slow reader, and hated it even though I felt compelled to read the classics from a young age. Growing up in Bum****, AL I was still way the best reader in my class. Then I found out about techniques for reading much faster which were never taught in school. In school we were taught to read outloud and pronounce correctly, then to read silently which of course would be at a conversational pace--half my classmates still moved their lips mouthing the words. But that was it--no refinement from there. Nobody ever ****ing told me that you could then just begin registering the words without pronouncing them in your head! Once you start doing that, you can process written text much faster. In fact, once you get the fundamentals down, the limitation becomes eye movement speed and stamina.

Reading became much more stimulating and fulfilling once it became possible to read a novel in about the time it takes to watch a long movie. Lately I don't have much time for reading so I've been listening to audiobooks in the car--which is fine but spending a week getting through a book takes me back to a lot of not-being-able-to-remember-what-happened-in-the-beginning-of-the-book-by-the-end-of-the-book, and I'm at least listening at double speed. Considering just listening to podcasts and the audio version of the Economist instead, except both of those often talk up interesting-sounding new books.

If locked in that conversational pace while reading, I could see how it would be a total turn-off, especially for someone with ADHD. Just not enough input.

Toochapooolwhateverigiveupas.

Anyone know anything about the Wii U?

the hbo go picture quality is consistently awesome for me.

Yup. Better than Netflix for me.

i have trouble getting a great picture consistently on 3g, but with wifi no issues at all.

mine looks blurry for like maybe the first minute of a show and then switches to perfect quality

also happens to go blurry if I pause it for awhile

Just another online degree mill like phoenix.

I don't have one but I follow game/tech press. What do you want to know?

Dammit.

Okay yeah, this is what happens to me. Pretty frustrating since other sites that stream shows/movies work fine for me.

We're opposites. I can read without an inner monologue, but I need to "hear" the narrator and slow down and immerse myself to enjoy fiction. Besides, style/voice/rhythm is a big part of what makes fiction enjoyable, at least for me.

Pronounce foreign countries the way they pronounce them or how we pronounce them? Brazil or Braseal, France or Frahhnce? I feel the latter is always correct but feel like a tool doing so in the US.

I do quite a bit of streaming of both HBO Go and Netflix and agree with these two that I have great picture and almost never any latency with HBO Go. With Netflix it can be choppy from time to time and I usually have to reboot my tablet to ensure all processes are shutdown to ensure best results - I suppose that could suggest the problem is on my end but that doesn't explain the discrepancy.

Netflix uses three different CDNs for their streaming. If one of them bogs down they will jump to another one. That explains why you will see a blurry picture instantly jump into focus. A decent percentage of the time it's because it's switching networks.

Also you like steampunk.

Infinite Jest audiobook--your thoughts?

there's like 100 pages of endnotes so i can't imagine it's any good.

Old post, but I haven't listened to it and don't plan to, so my thoughts are the same.

Yeah my first thought is how the hell do you handle the endnotes with that format? Seems like it would be the worst audiobook ever.

Apparently they use a different voice actor for the endnotes.

googling turned up this review which claims it tells you where the endnotes are but you have to refer to a pdf to read them.

What Every Body is Saying, Sarum, and This Time is Different say, "hello".

Haha tchoupitoulas. Pronounced chop-i-too-liss





Obama used to get tons of flack for pronouncing pakistan correctly from conservative radio idiots.

I use the same rule as the DH, play by the home team's rules.

Texas towns. No idea how they are supposed to be pronounced but this is how everyone says them:

Nacogdoches = NACK-a-doshe-iss
Refugio = re-FYURR-ee-oh