Goodreads Librarians Group discussion
We need audiobook shelves!!
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Just my 2 cents.

I have an entire thread discussing it at the Audio book group. Many there have now created their own "audiobook" shelves and I continually encourage others to do the same.
You can also check out how I list an audiobook on my profile page. I do it to ensure others are able to distinguish my audiobooks from the print version when they look at my books; either as an update, on my profile page, or as a review.

I have an audiobook shelf. I think it's important that the narrator/reader/performer be listed and that may be a category to have right under the three author entries. Some people enjoy reading books read by certain readers, so that would be a good search category to have.

Since GR lists the format as "audiobook", have you considered combining the title of your group to be the same vs "Audio books"? When I first searched, I used the format that GR uses, then I noticed in your post, you had them separate.
Just a thought. I suppose 177 people found you, so it can't be that big a deal.

Yes, I've wondered about the whole "audiobook" "audio books" thing for quite some time. I even posed the question but have had no comments from the Audio books group. I will certainly change the name of the group if that's the right thing to do. I'm hoping the Librarian experts here can finally put the issue to rest for me.
Also, I noticed that you have an "audio-books" shelf. Can I encourage you to change the shelf name to "audiobook" to the standard I hope to create? Thanks for considering it.
The default shelves are flexible, so you can always make your 'currently-listening' shelf exclusive on the 'edit shelves' page.
And as a librarian in training (14 more credits left!), I'm all about the downloadable audiobooks from library catalogs. Go overdrive!
Thanks :-)!! Happy reading (and listening)!