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Originally Posted by TrevorViking
Might be a different narration, but there is a cheaper option. A $.99 Kindle version with $2.99 whispersync add-on.
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Originally Posted by issybird
Amazon/Audible make it very difficult to see which audio version matches up with which ebook version. There's a free Kindle version that pairs with a $2.99 Flo Gibson audio, but people might well prefer the Timothy West or Simon Vance version (I would). Not only do they not disclose the matching Whispersync narrator, sometimes one ebook version will pair with more than one narration. It's a puzzlement.
But since I think most would want to get through the first five Barsetshire novels first, it's a decision that can be postponed.
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Yeah, I'm sure that there's a different narrator. The one that I posted is the Penguin Classics edition, which is different from the other editions, too, because of who the editor is and what he or she may have contributed to the book. Sometimes the editor has written an introduction that is especially noteworthy. Occasionally, when the book is cheap, I will buy a classic that I already have, e.g.,
The Iliad, because the book has a very good introduction that I don't have in my other copies.
I share your frustration, issybird, with the difficulty in finding out which audio is matched with which edition. I've even thought about buying the ebook, and then returning it, just to be able to find out. For this Trollope book, I clicked on the link that said something like "Audible edition" under something like "other formats," on the Amazon webpage. That link took me to the Audible webpage that I referenced. In retrospect, I wonder if that is reliable. For Amazon's own good, I think that they should make it clear--if I can't find out exactly which narration that I'm getting, I might not buy the Whispersync narration, just hoping that I will like it, and I might not even buy the
ebook to begin with.
I just thought of a way to find out which audio goes with an ebook. It's a hassle, but I think that it is surefire. I can listen to the audio sample on Amazon's webpage, and then listen to the samples on the Audible webpage which lists all of the editions, until I find one that matches the one that I heard on the webpage at Amazon. Like you said, "Amazon/Audible make it very difficult."