more thoughts on audiobooks
Jan. 19th, 2025 08:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatThe more audiobooks I listen to, the more impressed I am by just how challenging it is to be a REALLY GOOD audiobook reader. Especially in books that alternate readers!
I just* finished a book where both of the readers were fun to listen to, but one of them varied their volume from 'about what I'd expect' to 'whisper shouting' to 'actual whispering.' Probably if I'd been using earbuds it would have been perfectly easy to hear everything, but listening with my phone, I kept adjusting the volume up and down. (Which was fine, it just made made realize I don't normally do that.)
[*hahahaha I wanted to finish it last night, and when I got to the epilogue there were less than 30 minutes left, so I decided I'd stop crocheting and 'just listen.' Then I woke up 30 minutes later with absolutely no idea of what had happened in the story. OF COURSE. WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED SUCH A THING. So I went back and listened to the epilogue again this morning.)
I just* finished a book where both of the readers were fun to listen to, but one of them varied their volume from 'about what I'd expect' to 'whisper shouting' to 'actual whispering.' Probably if I'd been using earbuds it would have been perfectly easy to hear everything, but listening with my phone, I kept adjusting the volume up and down. (Which was fine, it just made made realize I don't normally do that.)
[*hahahaha I wanted to finish it last night, and when I got to the epilogue there were less than 30 minutes left, so I decided I'd stop crocheting and 'just listen.' Then I woke up 30 minutes later with absolutely no idea of what had happened in the story. OF COURSE. WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED SUCH A THING. So I went back and listened to the epilogue again this morning.)
