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You know? I think audiobooks need more respect. A well made audiobook is a project unto its own compared to a book and I kinda think that deserves some recognition.
mistershins@KeybladeSpirit completely agree. Alternately, a poorly produced audiobook can make even a great work of writing unbearable.
Min Headroom@KeybladeSpirit +1 I have a friend who was thinking about doing an audiobook which was closer to a radio play - more music, more atmospheric. dunno whether he ended up following it through but I still think it's a great idea!
Pedro Fonseca@KeybladeSpirit 100% in agreement. Have you ever listen to the David Goggins first book? It's just so well done. They turned it into a book reading session mixed with podcast, where in between reading David gets questions and explains a little more about the situation and gives more details. It's just amazing.
Helen LH@KeybladeSpirit I love it when they get talented voice actors to read audio books. I tend to read physical books, but one series I listened to entirely as audio books was the Harry Dresden series read by James Marsters. He was so good! This then got me into other great narrators of audio books. E.g Lorelei King (Mercy Thompson books) #bookstodon
Waggermama@Research_FTW @KeybladeSpirit James Marsters is reading stuff?!? (Goes off to check that out).
I must admit I do look up readers just to check if they’ve worked on anything else that interests me.
PiTau@KeybladeSpirit One does not truly respect an audiobook until they try to record a passage on their own.
Sami Määttä@KeybladeSpirit It's a shame that some publishers treat audiobooks as watered down versions of the originals.
Not long ago we received positive feedback from our customer that they enjoyed our audiobook version more, because illustrations had image descriptions. The publisher's audiobook just left them our as if the original didn't have any images.
Happy exception has been Brandon Sanderson's audiobook versions of his secret projects. Namely "Yumi and the nightmare painter" has illustration descriptions in the audiobook version.
#Accessibility #ebooks #audiobook #AccessibleAudiobooks #BrandonSanderson #YumiAndTheNightmarePainter
’Nathan Burgoine@KeybladeSpirit OMG yes. The immersion in a phenomenally made audiobook is just incredible.
it's B! Cavello 🐝@KeybladeSpirit I just heard some interesting history on audiobooks! I didn’t realize that the format we have now (which is for the most part more a direct narration) wasn’t necessarily how it always was
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-country-of-the-blind/
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-country-of-the-blind/
The Country of the Blind - 99% Invisible
We meet Andrew Leland as he’s suspended in the liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: he’s midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from sightedness to blindness over years, even decades. He grew up with full vision, but starting in his teenage years, his sight began