audiobook

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The audiobook is narrated by Wil Wheaton and he does a killer job at it.

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A recording, usually made available for sale, of a reading of the full text or of an abridgement of a book.

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noun

A recording, usually made available for sale, of a reading of the full text or of an abridgement of a book.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for audiobook.

noun

A recording, usually made available for sale, of a reading of the full text or of an abridgement of a book.

Example sentences

The audiobook is narrated by Wil Wheaton and he does a killer job at it.

Well, I say read, I listened to the audiobook;-) (the narrator is amazing so it was very enjoyable).

The audiobook is also really good with a great narrator.

They have interlinear translations of lots of religious texts (and surely also audiobook recordings.

I used the first Harry Potter novel as an audiobook to help improve my ability to understand spoken French.

In a train, if I listen to an audiobook, it will be by choice, unlike driving.

I listened to the audiobook recently and really enjoyed it and reminded me how much I liked the first book[2].

I can also find many in audiobook format, which I listen to on my commute and when walking the dog.

I had always pronounced it as one syllable, 'seetch', but the audiobook said 'see-itch'.

I had it on audiobook and listened to it during long car trips.

I highly recommend listening to the audiobook version narrated by Adams himself.

Edit: I guess depending on how powerful OK Google and Siri become it would be possible to embed instructions to download a virus into an audiobook or song.

Quote examples

I grew up saying and hearing a word a specific way for years of my life, then this audiobook professional reads it in a different way, but I have to accept him as the authority, since he's the official "reader", and I can only assume got the correct pronunciations from the author(s).