The World of Books Braces for a Newly Ominous Future

[fjtorres]

Full cast audiobooks are more like the old radio dramas than a book. They put the actors spin on the material rather than relying just on the audience.

Except for non-fiction, which I find close to a classroom lecture, I prefer print where I can imagine the voices and intonations myself.
Different strokes and all that.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

Full cast audiobooks are more like the old radio dramas than a book. They put the actors spin on the material rather than relying just on the audience.

Except for non-fiction, which I find close to a classroom lecture, I prefer print where I can imagine the voices and intonations myself.
Different strokes and all that.

If the voices fit the characters, then it works. Same as if when the single reader does the voices and they too work.

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

Except for non-fiction, which I find close to a classroom lecture, I prefer print where I can imagine the voices and intonations myself.
Different strokes and all that.

I feel similarly. For me audiobooks are only for learning, when used with printed content to both drive the content home and slow down the rate at which I read it. Other than that, they are anathema.

[Calenorn]

My ereader has enough memory to handle an omnibus future.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by Uncle Robin

I feel similarly. For me audiobooks are only for learning, when used with printed content to both drive the content home and slow down the rate at which I read it. Other than that, they are anathema.

Anathema seems overly strong, but obviously mileage varies. My top reason for liking audiobooks is that I get through more content and they serve as entertainment when I’m otherwise occupied. Win/win. I can’t read and drive, more’s the pity.

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by issybird

Anathema seems overly strong, but obviously mileage varies. My top reason for liking audiobooks is that I get through more content and they serve as entertainment when I’m otherwise occupied. Win/win. I can’t read and drive, more’s the pity.

Give it time.
Robot cars exist. The laws (and meatbag drivers) are the limiting factor.

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by issybird

Anathema seems overly strong, but obviously mileage varies.

Indeed. For me, audiobooks in general are as fingernails across the chalkboard of whatever passes for my soul.

[Gardenman]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

There are even more different types of audiobooks.

1. There's the ones where the reader just reads the book with no doing voices.
2. There's the ones where the reader does voices for the different characters.
3. There's ones with a partial cast where the readers do different voices.
4. There's the ones with a full cast where different people read the different characters.

I've got two audiobooks on the go. One fits 2 and the other fits 4.

His Dark Materials series are excellent audiobooks. Philip Pullman is the narrator and it has a full cast. The voices fit the characters very well. It's almost listening to a radio drama but without the sound effects.

Another full cast audiobook I really enjoyed was Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

Where did you get the books for Dark Materials and Ender's Game?

[Quoth]

1a: The publisher adds music and effects that make it hard to follow the reading!

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by Gardenman

Where did you get the books for Dark Materials and Ender's Game?

Probably here:

https://www.audible.com/series/His-D...oks/B006K1ML9G

https://www.audible.com/search?keywo..._header_search

Audible serves the UK, right?

[Quoth]

Yes, Amazon's talking Books are in the UK and Ireland. Amazon's Audible is the market leader.

[JSWolf]

There are some problems with audiobooks. For example, I cannot watch TV and listen at the same time But I can read some and watch TV at the same time depending on what's on/

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

...I can read some and watch TV at the same time depending on what's on/

I can't do that. The noise of the TV pulls me out of reading.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I can't do that. The noise of the TV pulls me out of reading.

It does depend on the book and the TV program. Like I'm on MR while the TV is going.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

It does depend on the book and the TV program. Like I'm on MR while the TV is going.

Internet plus TV doesn't bother me. Probably because the concentration required is different.