r/audiobooks

Give me a recommendation that you think Nobody else will give me and don’t say dungeon crawler Carl :)

You can’t come in here without every third post recommending Dungeon Crawler Carl. But I’ve never played video games, and I wasn’t even sure what “LitRPG” meant. I figured it wasn’t for me.

I was wrong. You were right. I’m on Book 3 and I want to talk about it with every single person I meet. I even bought a Princess Donut t-shirt so that maybe someone shopping at Trader Joe’s will see me wearing it and strike up a DCC conversation. (PLEASE DO.)

All this to say, you don’t have to be into video games to become completely enamored with these books—in case anyone else was on the fence like I was.

(not dcc)

I've returned or abandoned enough audiobooks that I've started noticing how useless some store samples are.

I'm trying to decide whether I can spend 10, 20, sometimes 40 hours listening to this narrator, and the preview gives me four minutes of:

Publisher information.

A dedication.

Half a page of scene-setting.

Maybe the protagonist says one sentence right before the sample ends.

That tells me almost nothing I actually want to know.

I want to hear the narrator handle a conversation between two characters. I want one male and one female voice if the book has both. Give me an emotional sentence, a normal descriptive paragraph, a proper noun that's going to appear 600 times, and maybe thirty seconds of whatever accent they're using.

Basically, give me the audiobook equivalent of a test drive.

I've had narrators whose regular narration sounded great in the preview but whose character voices drove me insane once chapter two started. I've also almost skipped books because the opening sounded flat, only to discover later that the narrator becomes fantastic once there are actual characters to perform.

And with full-cast productions, sampling the opening can be even sillier because sometimes you don't hear most of the cast at all.

I understand why automatically using the first few minutes is easy, but audiobook samples seem like one place where manually choosing a representative 3-5 minute section would genuinely help people buy the right edition.

If you could design the perfect audiobook preview, what would you want included?

What i remember from it is that a man wakes up inside the dungeon and ends up talking to it helps it out with invading bugs or something. When he gets out he encounters a tribe of orcs he helps them out too with another tribe of orcs I think. Then finally gets to what I think is a starting village ends up helping a beastkin girl. I think she was a rabbit she joins the party and they go on quest and dungeon delving till the level up enough to go to the next area.

Moto G Play 2021, Android 11

Coming from Voice Audiobook Player.

Using free version but in my 30 day free trial period. So far I really like this app but I was wondering if what I'm experiencing is a bug or something.

While listening to an audiobook, if I go to my library, the currently-playing audiobook is paused and also the notification shade controller disappears.

Is this normal, is it a bug or is it a possible incompatibility with my phone?

I can go into settings of the app or even use another app and the currently-playing book keeps playing, so I find it odd if wanting to browse the library while I listen isn't allowed in this app. It's not a huge deal breaker if it's just the way it is, but just wondering. I've looked in the settings and there doesn't seem to be a setting pertaining to this.

Looking for something lowkey I can listen to while doing chores etc. and provide some comfort during stressful times.

Hi guys! We are about to go on a road-trip with my 2 daughters 11 and 9.
I’d like a suggestion for an audio book we can enjoy as a family. Generally I read books aloud, and I’ve read my kids Narnia, Percy Jackson and I’m currently reading them the 5th Harry Potter book, so that won’t work as an audiobook.
We’ve listened to Holes, the Hobbit, and Jennifer Hecate..
I tried Redwall, but the vocabulary was too advanced the 9 year old ( her first language is German, so English is her second language).
Got any ideas?

Hi everyone, I am the author of YA Fantasy novel Chief Bladesinger. The audiobook has officially launched, and I have 10 free promotional codes for both the US and UK Audible stores that I would love to give away to listeners. If you like swordplay, a touch of magic, coming-of-age fantasy, a bit of sweet romantasy, and themes of faith and hope, this might be right up your alley. All I ask in return is that you consider leaving an honest star rating or review on Audible if you enjoy the listen. How to get a code: Just leave a comment below letting me know if you need a US or UK code, and I will send a promo code straight to your Reddit DMs. Thank you so much for supporting indie authors!

[EDIT to add that I do have a few US codes left!]

Author here. I wrote this one under the pen name Michael Howell, and I have a handful of free Audible US codes for it: Measure the Left Foot Twice, Book One of The Last Cobbler. Comment below and I'll DM you a code while they last. US Audible accounts only, sorry.

Heads up before you grab one: the narration is AI-generated (Kokoro TTS), not a human narrator. I'd rather you know up front so nobody's surprised.

What it's about:

Wendell Pike arrives in the border town of Thistlewick with eleven shillings, a cobbler's kit and his dead master's old wooden shoe last. The town has a law that no creature may enter unless it comes shod, and there's a lamia at the gate who has been turned away for nine years because nobody will take her order. So he kneels in the mud and measures her.

From there it's a tail boot argued before the town council, a centaur courier who refuses to be weighed, a master weaver with eight legs and strong opinions about his stitching, plenty of pies, and a town that does not thank him.

It's for you if you like:

- Cozy fantasy with real stakes but no grimdark

- A craftsman hero who solves problems with his trade

- Monster-folk heroines who are nobody's sidekick

- Slow-burn romance, kisses only

- Small-town politics and gentle humor

About 61,000 words, roughly 5 hours of listening.

All I ask is an honest rating or review if you finish it, good or bad. Feedback on the narration is welcome too.

I just returned a book to Libby after hearing a creaking door and footsteps in the snow. I don’t know why sound effects bother me so much, but they do.

Edited for typo

I'll be going on a long road trip. We normally put on an audio book to help my 10 year old son pass the time. We've listened to Harry Potter and Narnia already and liked them.

Looking forward to all your suggestions

So did you listen to anything good this week? Or something so truly terrible you want to warn other listeners?

Please include the following information: Author, Title and Narrator.

Why does identifying the Narrator matter?

Often books will be recorded with different narrators for different regions (ie. Harry Potter was read by both Jim Dale and Stephen Fry) or produced by different publishers (ie... Elizabeth Moon's books were produced by both Graphic Audio and Tantor). It is extremely helpful to other listeners to know what version you are sharing to avoid confusion.

Links to a source are welcomed and encouraged!

Overdrive, Audible, Downpour, Librivox, etc... It doesn't matter the source, as long as the Author, Title and Narrator are easily identified.

I’m most of the way through with about 4 hours to go and I can’t tell if I’m going to end up liking it. Some of the overly simple writing early on bugged me/felt forced or awkward, but sometimes it works better later. And it got a little more silly than I expected.

Maybe I need to get more into a Bobiverse headspace?

No spoilers but is the story good from here?

This is a thing I have been doing recently, detaching the audio from movies to add to my audiobook library. Movies that are dialogue heavy where you don't miss much by not seeing what is happening. Have any of you done this, and what movies or TV shows did you do it with? So far I have Conspiracy, Mass, Spotlight, and several episodes of Star Trek TNG, The West Wing and Newsroom.

Been on a sci-fi kick but can move to about any genre.
Listening catalog includes:
Bobiverse
Hail Mary
DCC
Expanse
ExForce
All Barry Eisler (John Rain)
Cosmos
Foundation
Silo
Pride and Prejudice
Emma

Something fun. World building is cool, but so are one offs.

I have 3 audible credits to spare so don’t be afraid to throw something out of left field, including romantic comedies!

Accidentally got the wrong version of a book (using a different narrator). Help chat basically said your SOL and couldn’t do anything about it? Has anyone had other luck with this?