The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Books 1-5 (Chapterized) – Read by the Author – Douglas Adams Free Audiobook

Written by Douglas Adams
Read by Douglas Adams
Format: M4B
Unabridged

These are the original audiobooks read by Douglas Adams. The newer versions are read by Stephen Fry and Martin Freeman, which means the originals are becoming very hard to come by. This should solve that.

Includes:
1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
2. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
3. Life, the Universe and Everything
4. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
5. Mostly Harmless

These are not my rips, but I went in and manually chapterized all of them and converted them to m4b. I also added the relevant metadata and some suitable cover art sourced from /r/audiobookcovers since the old BBC covers are not available anywhere in good quality. They are Plex/Prologue ready.

PLEASE SEED ONCE YOU HAVE FINISHED DOWNLOADING

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A Note on Audio Metadata

One of my frustrations with the audio content I download from ABB is the amount of time I always need to spend fixing the metadata and adding cover art to make it work nicely with Plex/Prologue. With that in mind, all audio content I share on ABB will always have complete and correct metadata, including:

– Author and Title
– Description (using the DESCRIPTION field read that can read by Plex)
– Narrator (using the COMPOSER field which can be read by Prologue)
– Genre Tags (I add all relevant Genres typically taken from Goodreads. These can be used to create smart collections in Plex.)
– Cover Art (I always use the highest resolution image I can find. Where none exists, I will find a suitable image from the internet – often r/audiobookcovers – or create one based on existing artwork.

Furthermore, the audio will always be in m4b format (to support chapter markers and ensure Plex can read the Description tag). The audio will always be correctly chapterized, where necessary, and chapter markers will be correctly named.

This means that all content I share here can be considered Plex/Prologue-ready with all metadata and artwork included. I hope this encourages others to do the same.

(FYI: I typically add metadata using kid3 and chapter markers using Ocenaudio.)