The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains runs 10.1 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Richard Powers (about 6.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 10.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 21 days |
| 1 hour / day | 11 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 10.1 hours, it runs longer than 82% of the 4,526 Mental Health & Psychology audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Richard Powers
Richard Powers narrates 50 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 522 hours in all.
- Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
- Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho
- Blood Justice: The Story of Multiple Murder and a Family’s Revenge
- The Number of the Beast
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About as long, on the Mental Health & Psychology shelf
569 Mental Health & Psychology audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
- Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
- How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
- The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains is an audiobook by Nicholas Carr: a 10.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Richard Powers, released June 7, 2010, on the Mental Health & Psychology and Computers & Technology shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- Richard Powers
- Released
- June 7, 2010
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mental Health & Psychology, Computers & Technology
- ISBN
- 9781481586542
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains as an audiobook?
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains runs 10.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.7 hours.
Is The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains?
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains is narrated by Richard Powers.
Is The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.7 hours, saving 3.4 hours.