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You Can't Do Both by Kingsley Amis

You Can't Do Both: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the You Can't Do Both audiobook runs 12 hours unabridged, narrated by Adam Newington (about 8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

12listening hrs
Classics (Literature)store shelf
2020released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 12 hours of listening.

Days to finish You Can't Do Both at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day24 days
1 hour / day12 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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What our data says

  • At 12 hours, it runs longer than 82% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf

413 Classics (Literature) 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

You Can't Do Both is an audiobook by Kingsley Amis: a 12-hour unabridged recording, read by Adam Newington, released December 17, 2020, on the Classics (Literature) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
12 hrs
Narrated by
Adam Newington
Released
December 17, 2020
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Classics (Literature)
ISBN
9781473579224

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the You Can't Do Both audiobook?

You Can't Do Both runs 12 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8 hours.

Is the You Can't Do Both audiobook free?

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

Who narrates You Can't Do Both?

You Can't Do Both is narrated by Adam Newington.

Is You Can't Do Both worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8 hours, saving 4 hours.