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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Goodreads is a pain in the ass when it comes to page numbers. They just don't get it. They have strict rules on where page numbers have to come from and sometimes that can be wrong. Heck, I can even send them a photo of the real page number and since it's not from one of their allowed sources, it won't count.
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Maybe, but it's the best place I've come across to easily and consistently generalise page counts for most all books.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
One possibility is that the German-language Mary Poppins might actually be a one-volume compilation of stories taken from several books in the series.
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Thanks; that makes more sense than an abridged audio of the first book that's about as long as the unabridged audio.
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Compared to what? I have noticed small differences between two copies of the same book that had been published by different publishers.
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Do you mean Dune specifically? It's a very odd audiobook. There is a narrator who does more than half of the book, but inexplicably some various dialogue sections are done by a full cast of narrators. The dialogue sections that the narrator does alone, he always includes things like 'he said with anger' or 'she said and laughed' and such. Whenever it switches to the full cast, all the sudden any non-dialogue snippets related to the dialogue like that vanish for the most part, and it's jarring. It becomes more like a dramatised version in those sections, even though the audiobook is 'unabridged'. I spoke about Dune's audiobook in more length in the 'Worst Audiobook Narrations Ever' thread and also in my review of it on Goodreads, but on perusing both of those it seems I didn't specify this point of it not really being fully unabridged (I thought I had somewhere, but it seems not... there are larger problems with that audiobook than this). Not that it matters all that much when a voice actor coughs instead of/along with the narrator reading 'she coughed' or a voice actor speaks happily instead of/along with the narrator reading 'he said with happiness in his voice' and such... but I wouldn't call that truly unabridged.