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Audiobook
An audiobook is a recording of text. Audiobooks are available in a variety of lengths and formats, most popularly through digital download, which allows people to listen on any smart device.
Spoken audio was first made available in the 1930s on vinyl records and has seen a resurgence in recent years with the proliferation of smartphones and other portable devices. As the medium has gained listeners—with people looking to read while driving, exercising, cleaning house and more—it has expanded past recordings of published books to work crafted exclusively for audio.
Numerous best-selling writers ...more
Spoken audio was first made available in the 1930s on vinyl records and has seen a resurgence in recent years with the proliferation of smartphones and other portable devices. As the medium has gained listeners—with people looking to read while driving, exercising, cleaning house and more—it has expanded past recordings of published books to work crafted exclusively for audio.
Numerous best-selling writers ...more
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I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping the physical presence of the best among multitudes. And I only have one shelf.
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As our heroes press on down the tunnel, the golden light grows ever brighter with every corner they turn. What can be its source? Whence comes this beauteous luminescence? What treasure can it betoken? And most importantly of all, who writes this stuff? I mean, really, 'beauteous luminescence'?
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― The Treacle People: Still Sticky
― The Treacle People: Still Sticky
A GROUP FOR AUDIOBOOK JUNKIES LOOKING FOR A FIX!
Audiobook Test Drive provides an opportunity t…more
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last active 25 days ago
Advanced Review Copies (ARC) of Fiction Titles made available to Reviewers and Readers before of…more
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last active 1 days ago
Are you tired of DNFing spicy audiobooks because of [insert reason here]? I can't be the only on…more
6 members,
last active 8 months ago
I wanted to make a group where readers who tend to listen to their literature can have a space.
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3 members,
last active 41 days ago
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