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audiobook

n. 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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Audiobook

An audiobook (or talking book) is a recording of a text being read. A reading of the complete text is noted as "unabridged", while readings of a reduced version, or abridgement of the text are labeled as "abridged".

Spoken audio has been available in schools and public libraries and to a lesser extent in music shops since the 1930s. Many spoken word albums were made prior to the age of videocassettes, DVDs, compact discs, and downloadable audio, however often of poetry and plays rather than books. It was not until the 1980s that the medium began to attract book retailers, and then book retailers started displaying audiobooks on bookshelves rather than in separate displays.

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I prefer not to voice the voces mysticae, but I have done so in conjuction with the audiobook versions of the Isles series.

He was also in charge of entertainment, which consisted of his Springsteen's _Greatest Hits_ tape, a Janis Joplin, a Doors, a Jimi Hendrix anthology and a Dale Brown audiobook.

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It was a voice you could imagine reading Mark Twain on audiobooks, and breaking all sales records with it.