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Pillow Thoughts

Courtney Peppernell · Pillow Thoughts, #1 · read by Courtney Peppernell

Not enough to go on

Every book we have judged on how far the recording outruns the page: 201 of them, the page's answer at the left-hand end and the recording's at the right. Marked for scale: All the Light We Cannot See, To Kill a Mockingbird and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. This one sits in the top 23% of our shelf of books for how far the recording outruns the page. −0.40, where we start backing the page; 0.40, where we start backing the recording.Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

The recording we found is far too short for a book this length, which means it is not the same edition: an extract, a companion, or a different work under the same name. Comparing the page with it would be comparing this book with something else.

What you can do Before you buy a recording of this, check its length against the book: the one we found is far too short to be it, and a complete reading will run a good deal longer.

Last searched Audible UK ·

Length does not decide this

1h 32m to listen, at 1×1h 14m to listen, at 1.25×1h 01m to listen, at 1.5×53 min to listen, at 1.75×46 min to listen, at 2×about 9 hours to readabout 6 hours to readabout 5 hours to readabout 4 hours to readabout 3 hours to read

The runtime is Audible’s own, shown at the speed beside it. The reading time is our estimate: 259 pages at 30 pages an hour, the pace you told us. Ours is 50, about 300 words a page, read at 250 a minute.The runtime is Audible’s own, shown at the speed beside it. The reading time is our estimate: 259 pages at 40 pages an hour, the pace you told us. Ours is 50, about 300 words a page, read at 250 a minute.The runtime is Audible’s own, shown at the speed beside it. The reading time is our estimate: 259 pages at 50 pages an hour, which is about 300 words a page, read at 250 a minute.The runtime is Audible’s own, shown at the speed beside it. The reading time is our estimate: 259 pages at 65 pages an hour, the pace you told us. Ours is 50, about 300 words a page, read at 250 a minute.The runtime is Audible’s own, shown at the speed beside it. The reading time is our estimate: 259 pages at 80 pages an hour, the pace you told us. Ours is 50, about 300 words a page, read at 250 a minute.

  • Hardcover barely knows this book, so the pace and second-crowd figures rest on very few people.

Reading load against listening load

Every book we hold placed by how much work it asks on the page, left to right, against how much it asks in your ears, bottom to top: 222 of them. Easy both ways is the bottom left corner, hard both ways the top right; above the dashed line the ears work harder, below it the page does. Marked for scale: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Diary of a Young Girl. This one is in the bottom 1% of our shelf of books for effort on the page and in the bottom 3% of our shelf of books for effort in your ears.
The dashed line is where a book would be same effort either way. This one sits below that line (the page asks more of you here than audio does), in the bottom 16% of our shelf of books for extra work in audio.
On the page−1.26
In your ears−1.64
Audio disadvantage−0.87

Where that puts this one among the books we hold: in the bottom 1% of our shelf of books for effort on the page and in the bottom 3% of our shelf of books for effort in your ears. The middle of the scale is not the middle of the shelf (most books sit below the average on both), so a book at 0.00 is already in the top 43% for effort on the page. Each of the three is measured against the whole shelf separately, so the bottom figure is not the top two subtracted. It is this book’s own distance from the middle.

What the audio disadvantage is made of. Two things and no others: how fast readers say this one moves, and how demanding the reviews we read found it. There is no third: the structural one has no data source, so it contributes nothing rather than being guessed at. Both directions are declared priors we have never fitted against a real verdict, which is the weakest-evidenced part of the whole model.

Every book we could measure both features on placed by pace, fast to slow, against how demanding the reviews we read found it, plain to demanding: 166 of them. The easiest listens are the bottom left corner and the hardest the top right, which is the shaded one. Marked for scale: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Diary of a Young Girl. This one is not placed: too few readers have told Hardcover how fast it moves for us to put it anywhere honestly.
This one is not placed: too few readers have told Hardcover how fast it moves for us to put it anywhere honestly.

How the call was made

Where a bar carries ticks, the grey one is the middle of our shelf and a coloured one is a line we publish, cool where we start backing the page, warm where we start backing the recording. The evidence squares at the foot are a different thing: how far each of our four sources went, hatched where there was nothing to measure at all.

The audio case
0.87With the reading left out, this figure is the format alone: it is easier in audio than most books we hold (in the bottom 16% of our shelf of books for extra work in audio). Past the line where we start backing the recording. But that line is a claim about a recording, and only 28 people have rated this one, so we did not make it.
Narration payoff
0.00The reading took no part in this call. It scored 0.36 above the middle of our shelf of books (the second mark on the bar), but only 28 people have rated it, short of the 250 at which we let a judgement about a reading move a verdict, so it is recorded at 0.00 and the call rests on the book and the format. No line is drawn on this row, because none was applied.
What is at stake
−1.70It sits in the bottom 3% of our shelf of books for how well the print crowds think of a book: not a book the crowds are precious about, so there is less to protect and we can be relaxed about it. Blended across 57,361 Goodreads ratings and 1 on Hardcover, each scored inside its own population first, and never added together.
Evidence
0.55How much of the picture we actually have, out of 1.00: four questions, each answered as far as the source could answer it, less anything taken off for reading fewer reviews than we aim to.The reading28 people have rated this reading: thinner than we would likeThe second sourceHardcover knows this book, with 1 reader there: thinThe matchHow sure we are that the recording we scored is this book: as good as it getsThe reviewsWe read 300 reviews to judge how demanding it is: as good as it getsWe are also missing something we treat as essential: a recording whose length and the book's page count disagree too far to be the same edition.

What each crowd complains about

We would need 40 reviews from each crowd before setting the two side by side, and only 7 of the reviews we read said they listened to it. So we are not drawing this one.

What the two crowds said

Showing the stars as each shop prints them. The two crowds are not measured from the same place: on our shelf Audible’s listeners average 0.35 of a star above Goodreads’ readers, so a recording that is ordinary for Audible can still out-star a book that is genuinely well liked for Goodreads. Switch the toggle to take that difference off.Showing each figure as its distance from its own crowd’s middle on our shelf, in standard deviations, so 0 is a typical book for that crowd. Listeners start 0.35 of a star up, partly because anyone who finishes a twenty-five-hour recording chose it deliberately, and this takes that off. It is not a claim that audio is better, the story figure is still Audible’s own (people rating a story they heard), and none of it moves the verdict above.

28 ratings of this readingstar chartstoo few to draw beside the book’s, and 250 is where we start trusting the shape
4.79·Audible
overallAudible
overall, pooled by the shop, so we hold no ruler for it
79%5 stars: 79 per cent, 22 ratings
21%4 stars: 21 per cent, 6 ratings
0%3 stars: 0 per cent, 0 ratings
0%2 stars: 0 per cent, 0 ratings
0%1 stars: 0 per cent, 0 ratings

28 ratings · performance and story, as the shop pools them

4.79+0.70 sdAudible
the performanceAudible
the performance, against Audible’s own crowd
79%5 stars: 79 per cent, 22 ratings
21%4 stars: 21 per cent, 6 ratings
0%3 stars: 0 per cent, 0 ratings
0%2 stars: 0 per cent, 0 ratings
0%1 stars: 0 per cent, 0 ratings

28 ratings

4.71+0.71 sdAudible
the story, as heardAudible
the story, as heard, against Audible’s own crowd
75%5 stars: 75 per cent, 21 ratings
21%4 stars: 21 per cent, 6 ratings
4%3 stars: 4 per cent, 1 rating
0%2 stars: 0 per cent, 0 ratings
0%1 stars: 0 per cent, 0 ratings

28 ratings

3.80−1.70 sdGoodreads
the book itselfGoodreads
the book itself, against Goodreads’ own crowd
33%5 stars: 33 per cent, 19,063 ratings
30%4 stars: 30 per cent, 17,097 ratings
24%3 stars: 24 per cent, 13,974 ratings
9%2 stars: 9 per cent, 5,147 ratings
4%1 stars: 4 per cent, 2,080 ratings

57,361 ratings

Every reading we hold

One recording is sold under this title and we do not think it is this book: it is far too short for the page count, so none of the figures above are measured on it. It is listed because it is what a shop will offer you, not as a way into the book.

  • Courtney Peppernellnot this book, we think1h 32m1h 14m1h 01m53 min46 min · One voice · Audible UK and US
    • The author reads it

    Only 28 people have rated this reading, short of our published bar of 250, so we name it and print no scores for it.

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The recording we set aside

Runtime
1h 32m at 1×
Read by
Courtney Peppernell
Kind
One voice
ASIN
B0C7XB22W5 · Audible UK
Rated in
Audible UK and US · 1 + 27 ratings of the performance
Judged on
28 ratings of the narration
Published
Andrews McMeel Publishing · 2023

This is the recording on sale under the title, set out so you can recognise it. It is not a recommendation. The runtime is what gave it away: 1h 32m is far too little audio for a book this long, which is why we will not weigh it against the page. “Judged on” is the crowd behind every judgement we make about this reading: the smaller of the performance and story counts, which is why it is a little under the two shop counts added. We do not link out to a shop, and we take nothing if you buy there.