Turn your commute into books: see how many audiobooks your travel time adds up to in a year.
Your commute
46 weeks leaves out about six weeks of holidays and days off.
Other listening on those days
Speed and books
Books from your commute, each year
21
an 11-hour book every 11 commuting days
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How to use it
Minutes each way, days a week and weeks a year.
Add the gym, a walk or chores if you listen then too.
Your playback speed and the length of the books you like.
The books your commute adds up to, and what a faster speed would add.
Minutes each way × 2, plus any other daily listening, × days a week × weeks a year gives your listening hours. Multiply by your speed for the hours of book you hear, then divide by the book length. Weeks default to 46, leaving out about six weeks of holidays.
Planning beyond the commute? The reading goal planner works from minutes a day, and the audiobook player plays your own books with a sleep timer and bookmarks.
FAQ
A 30-minute commute each way, five days a week for 46 weeks, is 230 hours a year: about 21 typical 11-hour audiobooks at normal speed, or 26 at 1.25×.
Most novels run 8 to 14 hours. Thrillers and romance are often shorter; epic fantasy and big histories often run past 20 hours.
Audiobooks are hands-free once playing: set the book, speed and volume before you set off, and use the steering wheel or headphone buttons rather than the phone. If a passage needs your full attention, rewind later.
Every minute at 1.5× covers a minute and a half of the book, so the books a year rise in step. The result shows 1×, 1.25×, 1.5× and 2× side by side.
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