audiobook
- noun
- /ˈɔːdiˌoʊbʊk/
- I love listening to an audiobook while driving to work.
- books and audiobooks
- audiobook collection
- digital audiobook
What I've had it with is narrators of audiobooks that are terrible.
- What I've had it with is narrators of audiobooks that are terrible.
- If you don't like audiobooks, find high quality podcasts.
- It's like ebooks and audiobooks from your library.
- Audible is the world's biggest platform for audiobooks.
- Is it going to be on audiobook as well?
- And I did do the mistake of listening to it as an audiobook.
- There's a audiobook of Autobiography of Yogi that's read by Oscar winner Ben Kingsley.
- So it'll be it'll be audiobook or it will be podcasts.
Examples
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Angie loves to listen to audiobooks, mainly self help books, as she sleeps.
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You can read it, or you can listen to the audiobook.
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What are some ways to build an audiobook collection for a school library?
Academic text (2008) -
Diane is washing windows while listening to an audiobook on her tape player.
Fiction book (1998) -
How can current audiobook titles be integrated into school libraries and classrooms?
Academic text (2008) -
The following lists include outstanding audiobooks that we have listened to over the years.
Academic text (2008) -
Marlise has bought a new audiobook for the trip to the Berkshires.
Fiction book (1998) -
When building an audiobook collection, a librarian needs to have an awareness of format preference and availability.
Academic text (2008) -
The library comes with a core collection of 740 "units," both e-books and audiobooks.
Academic text (2007) -
Audible is a giant repository of amazing audiobooks and other audio content.
Synonyms
A saved audio or video file you can play
A saved sound like a file or tape of speech and music
A recording of someone reading a book out loud for people who cannot see or prefer listening
How Produced
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word audiobook combines audio meaning 'to hear', the same root in audible and audience, and book meaning a written work. So an audiobook is simply a 'book you listen to', a recording of someone reading the text aloud.