Ranking audiobooks

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Ranking audiobooks

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1Stbalbach
Aug 10, 2019, 11:11 am

Some PD works like Charles Dickens have many audiobook versions available. What happens when there are 100s of narrators to choose from for a particular work, how does one learn about what is available, or rate which narrators are best? LT has a Common Knowledge feature to list narrators, this is a good start, though I think WorldCat is more complete. Still there doesn't exist a way to discuss distinct versions of an audiobook or rank them as an audiobook.

22wonderY
Aug 10, 2019, 2:08 pm

You could start a thread in this group to do just that.

We love analysis and comparisons.

3Molly3028
Edited: Aug 12, 2019, 6:52 am

https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/golden-voice/

may be a good starting point for your research ~ it includes an A-Z list (divided into 5 sections) of the best-of-the-best narrators.

4Crypto-Willobie
Aug 10, 2019, 5:51 pm

Amazon unhelpfully mashes all reviews together for a 'work' -- mixing audios with paperbooks and mixing all readers together.

Martin Jarvis
Simon Vance
George Guidall
are among my favorites

5gilroy
Aug 11, 2019, 8:05 am

IF they ever get the promised Edition layer built, this will be a moot point, you'd be able to separate.
But we're well past the "two weeks" of that promise.

6Stbalbach
Edited: Aug 11, 2019, 11:17 am

Not sure what the Editions Layer does exactly but that sounds promising anyway.

72wonderY
Aug 11, 2019, 5:25 pm

Sometimes the narrator and their approach to the material makes a world of difference. I kept searching till I found the correct reader of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Still searching for the right treatment of Pilgrim’s Progress.