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videobook

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

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noun

Meaning 1

A book developed in video format, or a video structured similarly to a book, used chiefly in teaching and learning.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Are there any Windows XP videobooks that will teach you computer networking?
  • Stephen King has a new videobook - I can't wait to watch it!
  • 2001, William H. Hsu, in alt.fan.tolkien http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.tolkien/msg/3aff6ede3c67f48c?dmode=source Yes, I do expect someone else to come along and tell the story cinematically again. It's happened two or three times in our lifetimes, and the book is barely (or nearly, counting from 1954) 50 years old; why not again? But I don't expect a "videobook recording" cf. the audiobooks that have adhered verbatim or nearly so.
  • 2004, Bob Crispen, in hsv.politics http://groups.google.com/group/hsv.politics/msg/229979099c425f41?dmode=source My son has written two books and a videobook, and his publishers gave him an advance on every one of them.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From video + book, probably on the model of audiobook.