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Descartes' Meditations by Rene Descartes

Descartes' Meditations: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Descartes' Meditations audiobook runs 3.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Ray Childs (about 2.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

3.5listening hrs
Non-Fictionstore shelf
2016released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 3.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish Descartes' Meditations at common listening paces
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30 min / day7 days
1 hour / day4 days
2 hours / day2 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×3 days

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What our data says

  • At 3.5 hours, it is shorter than 75% of the 39,028 Non-Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Other recordings

  • The 2012 recording read by Albert A. Anderson runs about the same length (3.5 hours).

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

Descartes' Meditations is an audiobook by Rene Descartes: a 3.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Ray Childs, released September 5, 2016, on the Non-Fiction shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
3.5 hrs
Narrated by
Ray Childs
Released
September 5, 2016
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Non-Fiction
ISBN
9781518933875

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Descartes' Meditations audiobook?

Descartes' Meditations runs 3.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.3 hours.

Is the Descartes' Meditations audiobook free?

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Who narrates Descartes' Meditations?

Descartes' Meditations is narrated by Ray Childs.