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Originally Posted by HarryT
We must agree to differ. I, for example, have both the UK version of the “Harry Potter” audiobooks, which are narrated by Stephen Fry, and the US version, narrated by Jim Dale. Same books, but two very different performances. I use that word deliberately; I think an audiobook narration by a good narrator is very much a performance, and I, as the listener, get my experience of the book filtered through the interpretation that the performer has placed on it. When I read the book myself, on the other hand, all the interpretation is my own; there’s no intermediary.
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Audiobook recordings for the blind are not performances; they are read quite colorlessly. Nor does one hear a performance when using text-to-speech to read a book.
And then there are audiobooks read by the author--which presumably enhance whatever meaning the author intended. If I listen to, say, Hillary Clinton's
What Happened, I think it's safe to assume I will get a better sense of her take on election 2016 than if I simply read her words on my own. Shouldn't an author be an acceptable intermediary?