my controversial audiobook take is that the readers should just read the dialogue in something close to their normal voice, esp w cis men trying to do 'woman' dialogue its annoying 90 percent of the time imo
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vs in a book book I can just, again, make things up in my head & interpret things how I like which may or may not be as intended but is a more enjoyable experience sometimes. the downside is I can't draw or wash my dishes or walk my dog while reading words on a page
Definitely makes reading physical feel more special because you have to carve the time out for it. It's a very private yet intimate act. You hide yourself from the rest of the world, but you meld your mind with that of the author to have an experience that is both fully and neither yours nor theirs.
I agree for most audiobooks, but for some reason, children's books tend to have incredible audio narrators. I love Winnie the Pooh narrated by Peter Dennis and The Little Prince narrated by Humphry Bower. It helps that those stories are short enough that it's easy to reread them in multiple formats.
ah yeah kids lit (&some YA) feels like a whole different thing in this regard. for a while my ethical way of consuming the wizard books was as pirated audiobooks read by iirc stephen fry
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