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0 pointsdylan6042y ago0 comments

>How many audio books is 40 hours?

Are you reading War & Peace or Cat In The Hat?

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Jeff_Brown2y ago

I always assume 200.to 250 pages per book when someone talks about large quantities of books.

satvikpendem2y ago

That's fairly short. I read about 100 books a year and it includes thousand page tomes like The Count of Monte Cristo.

dylan604OP2y ago

I always assumed that book to be rather short since it just needs to be a number of sandwiches eaten.

100 books/year. That's an impressive feat regardless the number of pages. Are these downloaded ebooks or physical printed copies of books?

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NoMoreNicksLeft2y ago

I like to read with my eyes, not listen. I honestly have no idea how long an audio book is, hours-wise.

I've seen a few for download, and they're always like hundreds of meg, if not over a gig. And that's in mp3, where it should be compressed heavily.

squeaky-clean2y ago

In my audible library, the shortest is the first Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy a 5h51m. The longest is The Power Broker at 66h9m. Most of the books I have are in the 15-25 hour range, but I also have a lot of fantasy stuff that gets near 50 hours (Game of Thrones, Brandon Sanderson...).

NoMoreNicksLeft2y ago

Well, then we're talking $300 to have ElevenLabs do a single GoT book, but maybe as many as 8 books for HHGTG-style stuff.

That's just not good value. Was sort of my point.

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Jeff_Brown2y ago

I always assume 200.to 250 pages per book when someone talks about large quantities of books.

satvikpendem2y ago

That's fairly short. I read about 100 books a year and it includes thousand page tomes like The Count of Monte Cristo.

dylan604OP2y ago

I always assumed that book to be rather short since it just needs to be a number of sandwiches eaten.

100 books/year. That's an impressive feat regardless the number of pages. Are these downloaded ebooks or physical printed copies of books?

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NoMoreNicksLeft2y ago

I like to read with my eyes, not listen. I honestly have no idea how long an audio book is, hours-wise.

I've seen a few for download, and they're always like hundreds of meg, if not over a gig. And that's in mp3, where it should be compressed heavily.

squeaky-clean2y ago

NoMoreNicksLeft2y ago

Well, then we're talking $300 to have ElevenLabs do a single GoT book, but maybe as many as 8 books for HHGTG-style stuff.

That's just not good value. Was sort of my point.

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