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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/41558456

Totally normal book on audible

Audible broke somehow. So now I have 1, 194 hours, and 2 minutes of book left...

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[–] darkmarx@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Stormlight Archive 5, Wind and Truth by Sanderson is 62h 48m on Audible. It's the longeest in the series.

Book 1, The Way of Kings, is the shortest at 45h 30m. So between 250 and 300 hours for the series so far.

[–] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Wind and Truth is my personal longest single book listen as well.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's a difficult binge, but an excellent one

[–] EonNShadow@pawb.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Waiting for the Graphic Audio version to be fully done before I do my reread of WaT, but yeah that's gonna be a lot of peoples' longest audiobook

[–] Veritrax@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Wandering Inn, by pirateaba. The books are almost all like 35+ hours and there's like 16 of them now. They're fantastic

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Theres spin offs too like the Singer of terranria series. So good! Glad to see someone else mention it.

TWI is also free to read if anyone is interested https://wanderinginn.com/2017/03/03/rw1-00/

Warning this is one of the deepest rabbit holes you will go down. And thats saying something on the web.

[–] couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection (1 book) narrated by Stephen Fry is 71 hours and 57 minutes

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

The more you post about this instead of listening, the longer it'll take.

[–] Jarlsburg@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

The Wheel of Time series has 13.1 books in it with each being between 25-40+ hours. I listened to the entire series which was ~450 hours or about 19 days.

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Imagine Wikipedia as an audio book.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope you believe in reincarnation :)

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

I don't but it probably would take several lifetimes.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I listened to Worm, which the wiki says is 156 hours.

Haven't done the sequel, but it says that's about 225 hours.

[–] juliebean@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

i did not know anyone had done audiobooks of those.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

If someone's done Pale, that is probably the longest (somewhere in the vicinity of 4 to 5 million words IIRC)

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Chapters were read by a number of different people with different gear, so quality and pronunciations were a bit all over the place. It was solid enough as a whole that I really enjoyed it.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality written by Eliezer Yudkowsky, narrated by other people. I've listened to it twice and am in the middle of my third listen, but it takes a while each time as it's about 70 hours long.

[–] WamGams@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

isn't that book the one that inspired a cult known as zizianism?

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know about that. All I know is that it taught me a bunch of ways to think critically that were super interesting, and with an entertaining and often comedic storyline to boot! I haven't been integrated into any cults yet :)

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

IT by Stephen King. Around 45 hours.

My current read is Sword Art Online by Reki Kawahara. These books are 7-9 hours each, but I’m on the 13th volume. I think there are 17 or 18 audiobooks released, covering the four seasons of the anime. The anime is on indefinite hiatus until the next book series finishes. I’m not sure if they’ll do the audiobooks before the anime or wait.

[–] luridness@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

About 60-70 hours I think. I know the author of the HP books is.. a bit insane but I really loved the way Steven fry? Was narrating each character.

[–] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is this a crazy coincidence or are you psychic?!? The picture in the post is from the Sorcerer’s Stone! I got sick and nostalgic, and started listening to it.

I think it's a little shorter in reality though, compared to what audible claims here...

You're 100% right about Rowling, she's gone off the deep end in a bad way.

[–] luridness@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah last I remember most of the books could be squeezed done in a week listening on comutes

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The wandering inn has over 600 hrs and now has two separate narrators. I use the voice app. Works well. I enjoy the series, its my soap for the last two years.

I csnt find the official number of hours but its huge.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Les Miserables. Unabridged.

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Chapterhouse Dune. Under 17 hours, but it sure felt like about 100.

[–] msokiovt@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm still listening to it, but it's on YouTube (though I downloaded the audio through yt-dlp). It's called The Theory of Everything: A Unified Version of Reality, which is 9 hours, 48 minutes in length. The audiobook I won't be posting onto YouTube (ToS reasons) is 5 hours, 19 minutes in length.

[–] juliebean@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality clocks in at almost 67 hours.

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

The longest one I have is King's The Stand. 47h 47m. I wish I could find the original edition, this one has too much waffle.