Audiobook Calculator

Got a new audiobook but no clue when you’ll finish? Let our Audiobook Time Calculator work out the math for you. By matching your personal listening pace with any audiobook’s length, our audiobook speed calculator will tell you just how much time you’ll need to see it through to the end. Now, managing your listening schedule is as easy as pressing play. Enter the fields below and get instant results.

How to Use the Audiobook Calculator

Our Audiobook time and speed Calculator was created to help you easily integrate audiobooks into your daily routine by estimating the total listening time based on word count, audiobook length, and your preferred playback speed. Here’s how to use it and get the most out of it:

1. Select Calculation Type: Choose whether you want to calculate based on the Number of Words in the audiobook or the Audiobook Length in hours and minutes.
2. For Number of Words:
   • Enter the total number of words in your audiobook in the provided field.
3. For Audiobook Length:
   • Input the hours and minutes of the audiobook’s total length as provided by the publisher or platform.
4. Select Playback Speed: Choose the speed at which you plan to listen to the audiobook. Speeds range from slower (0.75x) to faster than normal (up to 2x), so you can match your listening preference or time availability.
5. Calculate: Click the “Calculate Listening Time” button to get your personalized listening time estimate.
6. View Results: The calculator will display the estimated total listening time in hours and minutes, allowing you to plan when and how to enjoy your next audiobook.

The Formula Behind the Calculator

The calculator uses straightforward formulas to estimate listening time:

1. When Calculating by Number of Words:
   • The formula is: (Total Words / Words Per Minute) / Playback Speed = Total Listening Hours
   • Words Per Minute (WPM) is set to an average reading speed (e.g., 200 WPM) for standard calculations.
2. When Calculating by Audiobook Length:
   • The formula directly adjusts the total length by the playback speed: (Hours + (Minutes / 60)) / Playback Speed = Adjusted Listening Hours

Example:

• If an audiobook has 100,000 words and you listen at 1.5x speed:
  • The formula calculates (100,000 / 200) / 1.5 = 333.33 minutes, or approximately 5 hours and 33 minutes of listening time.
• If an audiobook length is 6 hours and 30 minutes long and you choose 1.25x speed:
  • The calculation is (6 + (30 / 60)) / 1.25 = 5.2 hours, or 5 hours and 12 minutes.

This tool aims to make your audiobook experience better by providing a clear understanding of how long it will take to listen to an audiobook, allowing you to fit audiobooks more conveniently into your life.

Why You Might Need an Audiobook Calculator

There’s many reasons you might need an audiobook speed calculator, for example let’s say you’re driving somewhere and you have 3 hours and 30 minutes left on your drive, this means you will need to find an audiobook that will last 3 hours and 30 minutes so you have something to listen to for the remaining time of your drive.

If your audiobook is 4 hours long at normal playback speed then that means you will need to listen to the audiobook at a speed of 1.25X to finish the book during the remainder of your 3 hours and 30 minute drive.

Another good example is for the people who are addicted to audiobooks and need something to listen to while they have their lunch breaks at work. If your lunch break is half hour, and your audiobook is 1 hour long, then that means you need to listen to the book at double the speed to finish it within your half hour break, however if you are reading a traditional book, you can calculate how long it will take to finish using this calculator.

Unlike eBooks and regular paperback books, audiobooks can be listened to at the same pace, faster or even slower. This can save you time or make your listening experience more enjoyable if you wish to listen to the book at a smaller pace. Knowing exactly how long it will take to finish an audiobook allows you to better plan your listening sessions. Whether fitting in a chapter during your morning jog, on your commute, or as a nighttime unwind session, you can schedule your audiobook time more effectively. Besides, we’re all running out of time within our daily lives we have become so busy. Everyone has their unique listening preference. Some enjoy a leisurely pace to soak in every detail, while others prefer a faster speed to cover more ground. Covering more ground can hep you save money when you buy audiobooks that you have to listen in a certain time frame, like a subscription service.

By calculating and managing your listening time, you can prevent feeling overwhelmed by lengthy audiobooks. Our audiobook speed calculator helps in pacing your listening time, allowing breaks when needed, and avoiding the fatigue that can come from prolonged listening sessions, especially while driving.

You can usually find the playback time and percentage of the audiobook in the about sections of audiobooks on popular platforms like Everand,com and Google Audiobooks.

Final Thoughts

I’m a trucker and I drive for a living, I love listening to music but sometimes I need to listen to something else as music gets boring. Driving long distances means you’re moving in and out of radio stations frequently and don’t have a steady radio to listen to, unless of course you’re using satellite radio. So you need to keep your playlists updated all the time.

But I also love audiobooks, especially true crime stories. As a truck driver I need to manage my time efficiently thanks to log book rules from the government. Time management from truckers is extremely important on a daily basis, this is why we need audiobook speed calculators to figure out how look the audiobook will take to play before we get to our destination.