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The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator
The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator tells you how many days an audiobook takes at your own listening pace: pick any of the 2,184 audiobooks The Books Insider measures, or enter a running time, set your minutes per day and playback speed, and read off the day you finish.
Running times from The Books Insider's dataset of 8,556 measured audiobooks (build ) · methodology
Choose the audiobook
Showing the median audiobook in our dataset (8.9 hours). Pick a title or enter hours to make the plan yours.
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 8.9 hours of listening: the median audiobook in The Books Insider's dataset.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 18 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
You'll finish in–by –
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The Books Insider Finish-Time Index
Days to finish at common listening paces, for common audiobook lengths. The median audiobook in our dataset runs 8.9 hours; the dataset-wide version of this table, with the hours saved per genre at 1.5×, lives on the statistics page.
| Running time | 30 min / day | 1 hr / day | 2 hrs / day | 1 hr / day at 1.5× |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 hrs | 8 days | 4 days | 2 days | 3 days |
| 6 hrs | 12 days | 6 days | 3 days | 4 days |
| 8.9 hrs (median) | 18 days | 9 days | 5 days | 6 days |
| 12 hrs | 24 days | 12 days | 6 days | 8 days |
| 16 hrs | 32 days | 16 days | 8 days | 11 days |
| 24 hrs | 48 days | 24 days | 12 days | 16 days |
How the calculator works
days to finish = ceiling( hours × 60 ÷ playback speed ÷ minutes per day )
The finish date is today plus that many days, so it changes as you move the slider or pick a speed. Running times come from The Books Insider's dataset: where the retailer's product page lists the real narration time for an author-verified edition we use it as-is; otherwise the time is estimated from the book's page count (pages × 275 words ÷ 9,300 words per hour) and labeled as an estimate. 1.5× playback returns a third of the running time, 2× returns half; the full method is on the About page.
Popular starting points
The most-asked-about audiobooks we measure. Each link opens the full measurement; "plan it" loads the title into the calculator.