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🎧📚There’s a lot to love about #audiobooks. Reading is really a one way conversation because the author isn’t around to tell you the story in person. However, a few things need to change with audiobook players.

⏯️ Review. Sure, I can go back 30 seconds and re-listen, but that’s just a proxy for every device that the printed format uses for separating ideas - sentences, paragraphs, page.

📝 #Notetaking and #Highlighting. These two are essential for condensing and anchoring ideas, which help in making long term connections. What if we could pause to record a short audio note that’d annotate the timestamp? What if like Kindle highlights, popular audio notes came with the book?

🔖Clip and Bookmarks. While they are useful tools, buried deep inside the menu, I wonder, if they are widely used. Most of the time your hands are tied up, and if it’s not just in time capture - it’s too much friction to get back to it.

🏃🏽Speed. With practice you can increase your reading speed without sacrificing understanding or comfort. But cranking up the audio speed only makes them sound like Mickey Mouse … listening at 2.5 the speed is caping it.