Audiobook New Releases

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.

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New Releases Tagged "Audiobook"

A Woman's Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mothering

Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop

You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson's Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode with Her

A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow

The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya (Unearthing the Past)

Nightfaring: In Search of the Disappearing Darkness

Finding Albion: Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain

Zagadka martwego wydawcy (Gracje z Ustki, #3)

Zima pożegnanych (Krystyna Lesińska, #4)

Das Ding ist: Man kann anders über Rassismus sprechen.

Skąd wyleciało to ciało? (Organek i Miller, #4)

Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World

The Chosen and The Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States

The Unbreakable Crown (Feast and Famine, 2)

Tony Stark, Odysseus, and the Myths Behind Marvel: Ancient Heroes in the Modern World – A Comparative Mythology of Greek Legends and Marvel Superheroes

It's No Wonder: The Life and Times of Motown's Legendary Songwriter Sylvia Moy

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Quotes Tagged “Audiobook”

“ When you read a book, the story definitely happens inside your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes. ”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

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“ The evidence that the gap is to some extent "built in" is certainly consistent with some of these observations. However, advocating alternative forms of literacy seems like poor advice given that print remains an essential medium, and reading skill (the traditional kind) continues to be a prerequisite for engagement with major institutions that greatly affect quality of life. Are alternative literacies a means to empower a minority population or to ensure their disenfranchisement? A bleeding-edg ...more ”
― Mark Seidenberg, Language at the Speed of Sight

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