The Rightspeed app is capable of training your brain to listen to audiobooks and podcasts at 10x their original speed.

Chances are the amount of books you've bought now vastly outnumber the amount that you've actually managed to get through. And now they're piled up on your desk, or neatly filed away like ornaments of your literary intentions.

The recent audiobook boom has done much to lessen this exclusively first world problem by allowing users to sit leisurely as the tones of Colin Firth, Kate Winslet or even James Earl Jones read our favourite novels to us. However, audiobooks still require time to be consumed, something many of us sorely lack. This issue may now have been mitigated by the Rightspeed app, (currently available in the iTunes store) which has the capacity to play audiobooks at 10x their original speed.

If the prospect of hurtling through Haruki Murukami’s bibliography in the time it takes you to complete your morning commute sounds daunting, relax, Rightspeed will allow you to adjust the listening speed to a pace you’re more comfortable with.

Rightspeed’s founder, Max Deutsch, listens to books at 5.3x their normal speed, allowing him to rattle through even the densest of novels in the time it would take a mere mortal like you to boil an egg. You suspect though, that he didn’t begin at this speed, and you’d probably be right.

Rightspeed’s slow acceleration feature will increase the playback speed by an infinitesimal 0.1x every two minutes allowing your brain’s neuroplasticity to slowly train itself to absorb content and or follow narrative at increased speeds.