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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
No, paper books and ebooks. There are some books I read in paper form and later in electronic form. And then put them side to side to find some small differences.
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Ah, I see. With Dune I meant compared to any written form of it and though I don't have any written copy I compared it with parts of the ebook preview online. Also, I've had success with googling parts of a book to check and finding it in I think it is Google Books? It's the index that scans in and saves so many books but you can't actually read those books, and searching them will only bring up a specific section of a book to look at to confirm your search... so if you can search precisely enough (especially if there are differences as we're discussing) and if it brings up the relevant book passage then you can compare.
Though I'm not too fussed about small differences such as what you've found or with Dune (I only mentioned that one because the however minor abridging of an 'unabridged' book was obvious there, to prove it does indeed happen). It's when I see an audiobook that seems to be abnormally short though 'unabridged', that if something is amiss with it it would have to be on a large enough scale to cause a reduction in size that's noticeable in the audio length. And when you listen, you wouldn't necessarily realise it's been abridged if it had, and it would be difficult to check. I know some people have had worries about ebooks missing chunks of a book too, but I'm not worried about that as I generally trust the publishers or if it's free I often go with a more trusted uploader if I can. I suppose I should just trust Audible too but, especially with knowing that abridging is popular in audiobooks, I can't help but wonder with some of these lengths!