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Ship of Magic: Audiobook

The Ship of Magic audiobook runs an estimated 20.7 hours (about 13.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

20.7est. listening hrs
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The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 20.7 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish Ship of Magic at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day42 days
1 hour / day21 days
2 hours / day11 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×14 days

What our data says

  • At 20.7 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 94% of the fantasy audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 88% longer than the average fantasy audiobook (11 hrs across 1861 titles in our dataset).

Computed from fantasy audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for fantasy listeners who want epic quests: a long-haul epic at 20.7 hours (estimated).

About the book

Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships—rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia . For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied her—a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim. For Althea's young nephew Wintrow, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard ship, Vivacia is a life sentence. But the fate of the Vestrit family—and the ship—may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider. The ruthless pirate Kennit seeks a way to seize power over all the denizens of the Pirate Isles...and the first step of his plan requires him to capture his own liveship and bend it to his will.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Ship of Magic audiobook?

Ship of Magic runs about 20.7 hours, our estimate from its 699 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 13.8 hours.

Is the Ship of Magic audiobook free?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Is Ship of Magic worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 13.8 hours, saving 6.9 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.

When was Ship of Magic first published?

Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb was first published in 1998.