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Cover of That Was Then, This Is Now by S. E. Hinton

That Was Then, This Is Now: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the That Was Then, This Is Now audiobook runs 4 hours (about 2.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

4listening hrs
4.7★17 ratings
Young Adultgenre
Free for new listeners

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 4 hours of listening.

Days to finish That Was Then, This Is Now at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day8 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 4 hours, it's shorter than 90% of the young adult audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 52% shorter than the average young adult audiobook (8.4 hrs across 162 titles in our dataset).

Computed from young adult audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ). Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for young adult listeners: a weekend-size listen at 4 hours.

About the book

Another classic from the author of the internationally bestselling The Outsiders Continue celebrating 50 years of The Outsiders by reading this companion novel. That Was Then, This is Now is S. E. Hinton’s moving portrait of the bond between best friends Bryon and Mark and the tensions that develop between them as they begin to grow up and grow apart. “A mature, disciplined novel which excites a response in the reader … Hard to forget.”— The New York Times

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the That Was Then, This Is Now audiobook?

That Was Then, This Is Now runs 4 hours. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.7 hours.

Is the That Was Then, This Is Now audiobook free?

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

When was That Was Then, This Is Now first published?

That Was Then, This Is Now by S. E. Hinton was first published in 1971.