# Want to read (or, rather, listen to) all the Sherlock Holmes adventures? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 30, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-read-or-rather-listen-to-all-the-sherlock-holmes-adventures/1023506 "2025-09-30T02:30:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-read-or-rather-listen-to-all-the-sherlock-holmes-adventures/1023506/1 "2025-09-30T02:30:17Z")
There is a YouTube video which has all the Sherlock Holmes novels and stories that are read to you. It lasts one day, 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 27 seconds. Apparently, the makers of the video were able to fit it into the maximum amount of bits that a YouTube video can hold because the only thing it contains are the readings and one picture. You will have to listen to and watch some advertisements, of course. It’s at [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4TU2h\_rDlM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4TU2h_rDlM) . ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-read-or-rather-listen-to-all-the-sherlock-holmes-adventures/1023506/2 "2025-09-30T08:02:14Z")
I just discovered something even more bizarre. It’s a YouTube video which has all of _The Lord of the Rings_ being read. _The Lord of the Rings_ is, of course, still under copyright. It lasts one day, 10 hours, 24 minutes, and 5 seconds. Despite this, you can listen to it for for free with advertisements. Furthermore, it has a full-length visual of something playing at the same time with that reading, so it takes up as many bits as would be expected for a video that length.. That visual is something Tolkien-related. It’s not, though, any version of Tolkien that I recognize. It doesn’t appear to me that the visual matches the reading except for being something Tolkien-related. It’s at [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm\_fnnujwxI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm_fnnujwxI) . ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-read-or-rather-listen-to-all-the-sherlock-holmes-adventures/1023506/3 "2025-09-30T10:03:43Z")
I like reading, so I’ve read all the Sherlock Holmes stories. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-read-or-rather-listen-to-all-the-sherlock-holmes-adventures/1023506/4 "2025-09-30T13:37:29Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > It lasts one day, 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 27 seconds It says 2:17:14:27 on the video timeline.. ie, 2 days, 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 27 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-read-or-rather-listen-to-all-the-sherlock-holmes-adventures/1023506/5 "2025-09-30T13:42:38Z")
Are they limited to the ACD stories or do they include the extended universe like _The Seven-Per-Cent Solution_? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-read-or-rather-listen-to-all-the-sherlock-holmes-adventures/1023506/6 "2025-09-30T13:59:21Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > It says 2:17:14:27 on the video timeline.. ie, 2 days, 17 hours, > 14 minutes, and 27 seconds. It appears to me that the numbers on the video timeline start with 1:00:00:00, not 0:00:00:00, so that it’s 1 day, 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 27 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-read-or-rather-listen-to-all-the-sherlock-holmes-adventures/1023506/7 "2025-09-30T14:00:32Z")
It’s just the stories Doyle wrote, not the pastiches other people have written. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-read-or-rather-listen-to-all-the-sherlock-holmes-adventures/1023506/8 "2025-09-30T16:52:09Z")
Are there no legitimate “books on tape” recording of Holmes? And how good is the reading? Is it a real person, or 2025 AI voice over that says things like “he drove on highway one zero five” and mispronounces words? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-read-or-rather-listen-to-all-the-sherlock-holmes-adventures/1023506/9 "2025-09-30T17:17:47Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > a real person, or 2025 AI voice over I just searched online and found some claims that it must be an AI. However, I’ve listened to some of it, and it sounds pretty accurate. In any case, what surprised me (and caused me to start a thread) is that it’s a video that’s over a day long. There is currently a rule that videos can be no more than 12 hours. Also, it’s free (with advertisements). Yes, there are books on tape recordings of Sherlock Holmes works. They cost money. They require you to search for videos for each work. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-read-or-rather-listen-to-all-the-sherlock-holmes-adventures/1023506/10 "2025-09-30T19:02:02Z")
I’m sure it’s over 2 days. It’s about 65 hours ! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-read-or-rather-listen-to-all-the-sherlock-holmes-adventures/1023506/11 "2025-10-02T01:51:22Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Are there no legitimate “books on tape” recording of Holmes? I have a complete collection on audible narrated by the fabulous Stephen Fry. Its 72 hours long.