Audiobooks & Podcasts

20+ hour, 14+ min ago   (461+ words) Good e-Reader Audible Will Launch New Features to Bring Listeners Into the Story Last week, Audible introduced an exciting range of immersive features aimed at enhancing the way listeners engage with audiobooks. Over the coming months, the audiobook giant will…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (588+ words) Reading a dense work of poetry or philosophy can feel like hacking through brambles of barbed wire in a dreary no-man’s land of confusion. Some readers may have heard that John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” or Immanuel Kant’s “Critique of Pure…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1386+ words) For me, long trip = stopping by a bookstore is already a set. Now, what to do.Still, this is the modern age.There are e-books.And I have hundreds of e-books in stock.Hundreds of them.In other words, I…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1658+ words) If you enjoy clever sci-fi, dry British humor, and stories that make you question everything — including the meaning of the number 42 — The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy audiobook deserves a serious look. Douglas Adams’s 1979 classic follows Arthur Dent, an ordinary…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (318+ words) Listeners get a free second audiobook with every purchase through November 1, 2026, led by three productions that give every character its own voice. Whitfield shares the Academy Award-nominated story credit for Sing Sing, the 2024 A24 film in which Colman Domingo earned a…...

6+ day, 25+ min ago   (152+ words) I’m sitting in the garden reading a book about World War II. It’s warm and quiet, and the people in the book lost everything; they are hungry and frightened — frightened in a way that sinks into my own chest as…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (869+ words) Every so often, when my thoughts are tending towards the existential, I think about all the brilliant books that exist in the world – and how I will only ever get time to read a small fraction of them. It’s a…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (391+ words) Book lovers can now support independent bookshops through a new audiobook subscription service. The service is seen as an ethical alternative to Amazon’s Audible. The East End’s stand against fascism still resonates 90 years on McDonald’s returns to Canary Wharf after…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (785+ words) We all know reading is good for us. We also know that we should probably read more. But between work, studies, family, chores, social media, and everything else happening in a normal day, finding time to sit down with a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (506+ words) I have a list problem. Not a reading problem, exactly. A "someday I'll get to the classics" problem. The books everyone says changed how they think — Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Plato — sitting in a mental pile while my commute stays… a commute....