As has the game changed in the ‘news’ world. I’ve not read any complete books on the web - I can’t keep up with the dead-tree “to read” shelf of books in my bookcase.
I figure I’m about 200 books behind...
I record news and documentary shows and play them back on the PC using the free VLC media player. It can speed up the video while maintaining the original pitch of the audio....I can get through a 1hr news program or documentary in half the time :-)
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
The media player that fulfills all your needs. It handles DVDs, (S)VCDs, Audio CDs, web streams, TV cards and much more. With VLC, there is no need to continually update many different codec packs. VLC comes with nearly every codec built in! And whats more, VLC can play back your files, even if the media is damaged! Missing or broken pieces wont stop VLC. All the video and audio information that remains can be played.