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means A recording of a book's text being read aloud, meant to be listened to instead of read on a page.

from A straightforward compound: 'audio,' from Latin audire, 'to hear,' bolted onto 'book.' The practice predates the word — recordings for blind readers and talking-book programs existed by the mid-20th century — but 'audiobook' itself only caught on as a commercial term once cassette tapes and then CDs made listening to a whole novel in your car a practical, marketable thing to do.