Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books audiobook runs 7 hours unabridged, narrated by John Lescault (about 4.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 14 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 7 hours, it is shorter than 53% of the 4,590 Essays & Anthologies audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by John Lescault
John Lescault narrates 148 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,722 hours in all.
About as long, on the Essays & Anthologies shelf
492 Essays & Anthologies audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books is an audiobook by Michael Dirda: a 7-hour unabridged recording, read by John Lescault, released August 15, 2015, on the Essays & Anthologies shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7 hrs
- Narrated by
- John Lescault
- Released
- August 15, 2015
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Essays & Anthologies
- ISBN
- 9781504616041
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books audiobook?
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books runs 7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.7 hours.
Is the Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books audiobook free?
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Who narrates Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books?
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books is narrated by John Lescault.