Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games audiobook runs 9.9 hours unabridged, narrated by Jonathan Yen (about 6.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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What our data says
- At 9.9 hours, it runs longer than 69% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
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Jonathan Yen narrates 288 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,172 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Social Science shelf
1,779 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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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
Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games is an audiobook by Ian Bogost: a 9.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Jonathan Yen, released September 13, 2016, on the Social Science and Mental Health & Psychology shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Jonathan Yen
- Released
- September 13, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, Mental Health & Psychology, Biology & Chemistry
- ISBN
- 9781501936111
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How long is the Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games audiobook?
Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games runs 9.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.6 hours.
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Who narrates Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games?
Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games is narrated by Jonathan Yen.