Re: Pearls Before Swine: Books On Tape

On 2024-10-02 20:16:51 +0000, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan said:

In article <vdk72q$3bulb$2@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

Pearls Before Swine: Books On Tape
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/10/02
 Books on tape count as real books.  I do not know where this tempest in
a teapot is coming from.
 Lynn

 I'm ambivalent.  I let my kindle read to me on long drives and it's
mostly fine, but then I see the reviews on Amazon where it seems
like the people listening to the audio book editions are getting
some kind of radio drama with the narrators doing different voices
instead of just a recitation of the text.

Some are bigger audio drama production, while others are simply book readings.
The Big Finish company, for example, makes a lot of "Doctor Who" audio dramas with the original actors as well as new actors doing their lines and sound effects, etc added. They also do a lot of other audio dramas.
<https://www.bigfinish.com>
The quality of the simpler book readings does of course depend on who is reading the book. Some can be extremely boring to listen to, while others can be really good, and a few can be very bad choices due to their accents.
Of course, with text-to-speech (including AI), you can have pretty much any digital book read to you these days, often by a choice of various celebrity voices.

I don't think people getting their books that way have the same
experience as "readers".