audio-book

A form of audiobook — A recording, usually made available for sale, of a reading of the full text or of an abridgement of a book.

Meanings

nounaudio-book (plural audio-books)

plural audio-books

  1. rareRare spelling of audiobook.

    If you ‘hate’ cooking, then find a way to make it enjoyable. Listen to your favourite music, or an audio-book to distract you from your task.

    2008, Alyssa Abbey, Stop Making Excuses and Start Living With Energy, Hoboken, NJ: Capstone Publishing, →ISBN, page 127
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    Walking can even add to your intellectual dimension of wellness if you listen to an audio-book or podcast and to your emotional dimension if you mentally work through a stressful issue.

    2008, Teena Ruark Gorrow, Susan Marie Muller, The ABC's of Wellness for Teachers: An A–Z Guide to Improving Your Well-Being in the Classroom and Out, Indianapolis, IN: Kappa Delta Pi, →ISBN, page 29

    The answering options were divided into fiction and non-fiction with three distribution forms: as a printed book, as an audio-book, and as an e-book.

    2014 June, Annika Bergström, Lars Höglund, “A national survey of early adopters of e-book reading in Sweden”, in Information Research, volume 19, number 2
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APA

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Chicago

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