How It Is: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the How It Is audiobook runs 5.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Dermot Crowley (about 3.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 5.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 11 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
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What our data says
- At 5.3 hours, it is shorter than 82% of the 7,973 Religious Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Dermot Crowley
Dermot Crowley narrates 15 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 131 hours in all.
About as long, on the Religious Fiction shelf
578 Religious Fiction 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
How It Is is an audiobook by Samuel Beckett: a 5.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Dermot Crowley, released February 17, 2017, on the Classics (Literature) and Religious Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 5.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Dermot Crowley
- Released
- February 17, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Classics (Literature), Religious Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781004133079
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the How It Is audiobook?
How It Is runs 5.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.6 hours.
Is the How It Is audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates How It Is?
How It Is is narrated by Dermot Crowley.