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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[–] 2 points 10 months ago

Welp, you have me soundly beat. My longest is 85 hrs and 6 minutes.

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    [–] 19 points 10 months 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.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago*

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

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    i did not know anyone had done audiobooks of those.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 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.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Imagine Wikipedia as an audio book.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months 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 :)

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

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

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Les Miserables. Unabridged.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

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

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    [–] 26 points 10 months ago

    The book: A simple guide to choosing the right Lemmy instance for you.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Probably reading the Count of Monte Cristo. The first act is like an hour, the second act is 1100 hours and the third act is 45 minutes

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Suspiciously close to a 32bit integer maximum value in milliseconds (2^32^/1000/60/60=1193 hours)

    Maybe you listened to roughly 1 hour or had roughly 1 hour left and some sort of integer overflow happened that set the remaining time to integer maximum+listened time/time left

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago

    That has to be it somehow! But it happens with all books now... and a different book I tested was 1,200 hours when I started it.

    But at least I know aliens aren't trying to send me messages now :P thanks

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    What are you listening to, the collected version of The Dark Tower?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    1194 hours is pretty close to 2¹⁶ seconds minutes🤔

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    No it's not...2^16 is 65,536.

    1194 • (60 • 60) = 1194 • 3600 = 4,298,400

    Your closest power of 2 is 2^22...4,194,304

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Its not one audiobook but ive been listening to james aclers deathlands for a couple years now. Theres around 130 audiobooks, each one is about 8-12 hours. I use audacity to combine 5 audio books at a time and it certainly feels like one long audiobook. I might be around 400 hours now and thats still only half way

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