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Originally Posted by greenapple
I feel bad for the narrator, esp if it is a long book, worse if it is a bad book. Must be depressingly tiring to read every single word. I can sense the tiredness in the voice and sometimes the narrator's voice can get a little hoarse. That gets in the way of my enjoyment of an audiobook. As I said, I'm not complaining. I just feel awfully sorry for the reader.
So, ebooks for me.
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That's why audiobooks are generally narrated by professional actors, who are used to "speaking for a living" regardless of their personal enjoyment or otherwise of the subject matter. Sounds as though you've come across some very poor examples.
A friend of mine, a British TV actress by profession, has a nice sideline in narrating audiobooks while she's "between" acting jobs. She's narrated several hundred of them.