# Burn a CD from an Audible.com download?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-a-cd-from-an-audible-com-download/519887>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 3, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-a-cd-from-an-audible-com-download/519887 "2009-12-03T20:15:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-a-cd-from-an-audible-com-download/519887/1 "2009-12-03T20:15:39Z")

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I’d like to get my mom an audiobook from [audible.com](http://audible.com) for xmas. However, she’s not really the MP3 player type. Can I burn a copy to CDs for her? (I have Mac computers.)

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**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-a-cd-from-an-audible-com-download/519887/2 "2009-12-03T20:27:17Z")

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You can burn to CD, but only in Audio CD format, not MP3 CD format, so it will generally take several discs for a book. And 20+ discs for something big like the new Stephen King book.

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**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-a-cd-from-an-audible-com-download/519887/3 "2009-12-03T20:29:53Z")

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Cool. Plain old Audio CD is what I intended. I think the book I’m looking at is 10 discs if I buy it as a regular Audio CD (but less than half the price as a download).

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-a-cd-from-an-audible-com-download/519887/4 "2009-12-03T20:30:58Z")

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I’d recommend checking to see that what you burned is correct. We tried to burn CDs of Stardust (Neil Gaiman’s book) and it made fewer CDs than expected… it wound up skipping a chunk in the middle. We never figured out just why. Bug in iTunes?