- Nobody. Wants. This. Audiobooks are an art form. AI narrators are not even remotely qualified to replace the talented human narrators. And I think Audible is kidding themselves if they think people are going to use a $12 credit on something read by a machine.
- Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans. P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
- No machine can ever put the love and dedication into narrating an audiobook like Moira Quirk and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (my 2 favorites).
- And Mary Robinette Kowal, Robin Miles, and...
- And Emily Woo Zeller, and Xe Sands. And there's still no one for a complicated classic like George Guidall.
- I went on a deep dive of my library's collection of Emily Woo Zeller and Xe Sands narrated titles, I will try all kinds of new to me books if the narrator is good.
- Xe Sands voice is so resonate / distinctive . Have you listened to her narrate First Contact/Eclipsed Evolution trilogy by Kim Harrison?!May 14, 2025 04:41
- I have not! I just finished her reading of a book about the Russian Revolution.
- Title Please?!
- I didn't love the book but it's really interesting and none of my issues are with the reading! (Sorry for an Amazon link) www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01N...
- Thank you, will see if the local library had this. Always more history to learn. And Russian Revolution seems timely, alas.
- It's a pretty heavy book, and I think it's probably hard going if you don't already have a general idea of who the major players are, I wish it had a slightly more surfaced framing that wasn't just "these people from the US/UK/Western Europe wrote about watching it"
- Is there a different book on the topic you prefer?
- It's hard to recommend one! It kind of depends on what you want to know about. This one isn't really about the politics of why, it's about the experience of surviving the collapse of the government for non-citizen journalists and diplomats documenting what they saw.
- Hhhmm. I'll have to think about that. If I want to know how/what caused it or how it happened or how the majority of people survived it. Or all of it...because history is fascinating...and libraries make being insatiable possible.
