The Mech Touch Audiobook: Listening to a 7,000-Chapter Serial
There is no official audiobook of The Mech Touch, and given that the novel is past seven thousand chapters and still running on Webnovel, there is never going to be a studio one. What exists as a listen is the chapter-by-chapter narration on Arcwave, where 7,543 of the 7,545 published chapters are narrated (100%), about 1646h 5m of audio. The first 10 chapters are free, with no account.
What The Mech Touch is about (no spoilers)
Ves Larkinson wanted to be a mech pilot and did not have the genes for it. What he has instead is a new degree in mech design, a workshop on a backwater planet, a mountain of debt, and a system that treats designing machines the way other stories treat swinging swords — as a craft that levels. The opening arc is about building a first mech that anyone would actually buy, in a galaxy where the big houses own the market and a lone designer is a curiosity at best. That is the premise, and as far as this page goes.
Written by Exlor and serialized on Webnovel since 2018, it is one of the longest webnovels in English in any genre, and one of the few where the progression is industrial: reputation, contracts, supply chains and the slow compounding of skill, with the battles as punctuation rather than plot.
What you are getting into
The longest listen in our catalog. The narrated audio runs about 1646h 5m and is still growing, because the source is still being written. Treat it like a radio serial you keep in the background of your life rather than a book you finish: it suits long commutes, long shifts and long walks, and it is exactly the kind of story that benefits from resume-anywhere playback. Chapters are steady rather than hooky, so it also works well at a slightly raised speed.
Tonally it is optimistic hard-ish sci-fi with a business brain — closer to a founder’s memoir set among starships than to military SF, though it has plenty of the latter when it wants it.
Why there is no official audiobook
Length, again, but at a scale that settles the question: a studio recording of 7,545 chapters would be the longest audiobook ever produced, for a serial that adds more every week. Generated narration is the only economics that work, and the trade is explicit: not a human performance, but the whole thing, in order, kept current. The voice is consistent throughout and disclosed on every page — sample it free before you decide.
How to start
Open the Mech Touch novel page and press play — the first 10 chapters need no account. If you have already read part of it on Webnovel, jump straight to your chapter number; playback resumes where you stop, on any device, including the lock screen.
If you like The Mech Touch
The nearest neighbours in our catalog are The Legendary Mechanic (a builder protagonist with a lighter touch) and Super Gene (sci-fi progression on a similar scale). The sci-fi and mecha shelf and the full catalog have the rest — every title opens with 10 free chapters.
Browse by genre: cultivation & xianxia, LitRPG & progression, sci-fi & mecha, romance — or the full list of webnovels with audiobooks.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there an audiobook of The Mech Touch?
- Yes. Arcwave narrates The Mech Touch chapter by chapter, and 7,543 of the 7,545 published chapters are narrated (100%) — about 1646h 5m of listening. There is no official audiobook — the novel is a Webnovel original that has never had an audio edition — so this is the way to hear it, with the first 10 chapters free and no account needed.
- How long is The Mech Touch audiobook?
- The narrated audio currently runs about 1646h 5m, and it keeps growing, because the novel is still being written. This is the longest listen in our catalog by a wide margin — years of commutes, not months.
- Is The Mech Touch finished?
- No. It has been serialized on Webnovel since 2018 and new chapters still arrive. Narration follows the serial, so the count on the novel page climbs as the story does.
- Is the narration AI or a human voice?
- A consistent generated voice, disclosed on every page. Nobody is going to record a human performance of seven thousand chapters; generated narration is what puts a story this size in audio at all. Sample the free chapters and judge with your own ears before committing.
- Is it really about designing mechs, not piloting them?
- Yes — that is the hook. The protagonist is a mech designer, and the story treats engineering, business and reputation as the progression system. Battles happen, but the long arcs are about building something. If you want a pilot power fantasy, look at the sci-fi shelf; if you want the workshop, this is the one.