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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
I think the comment about abridged is interesting. I do make a point to select audiobooks that are unabridged. Maybe this is just my own perception, but it seems that more books are unabridged these days than used to be the case.
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Totally. Abridged audiobooks were common in the cassette tape era. 2 tape or 4 tape abridgements were all I commonly found on bookstore shelves. The rare unabridged audio was a boatload of tapes and very expensive ( by my standards of the time).
I also remember the Readers Digest hardcover volumes of abridged print books. I remember my father bringing home a big box of those that someone gave him. I and my mother were the big readers of the family. I must have been in high school, and had no idea what I was missing by reading those. I'm not sure if my mom ever touched them. I can't remember the last time I saw an abridged print book.