Did you consider getting a professional to do the audiobook?
EDIT: someone downvoted me. I’m not saying Will won’t do a good job, but he clearly won’t do as good a job as a professional. Picking someone with great rep could widen the appeal of the audiobook.
Yeah I thought about this a lot, but I strongly prefer audiobooks to be read by the author, and anecdotally other people do, too. I didn’t read DGB (to save time), and regretted that decision.
Fair enough, and to be honest I suspect a lot of people will find it more authentic to hear the author read it. I don’t really listen to audiobooks myself. I’m sure you’ll do a great job!
Thank you!!! For efficiency, I almost only read books by audio now, so as self-declared expert, I agree books read by the author are superior because the author understands the meaning, inflection, and nuance in their words. I think it added value to WWOTF.
I most recently read Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas, read by the author, and cannot help but feel moral unease about EA position in the philanthropic world right now. He makes a defensible argument for politics as the means of doing the most good.
While I am here, humbly, I need to ask a burning question: Your advocacy and behaviour are incongruent with respect to consumption; you consume in a degrowth pattern, but advocate for growth, why?
Did you consider getting a professional to do the audiobook?
EDIT: someone downvoted me. I’m not saying Will won’t do a good job, but he clearly won’t do as good a job as a professional. Picking someone with great rep could widen the appeal of the audiobook.
Yeah I thought about this a lot, but I strongly prefer audiobooks to be read by the author, and anecdotally other people do, too. I didn’t read DGB (to save time), and regretted that decision.
Fair enough, and to be honest I suspect a lot of people will find it more authentic to hear the author read it. I don’t really listen to audiobooks myself. I’m sure you’ll do a great job!
Thank you!!! For efficiency, I almost only read books by audio now, so as self-declared expert, I agree books read by the author are superior because the author understands the meaning, inflection, and nuance in their words. I think it added value to WWOTF.
I most recently read Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas, read by the author, and cannot help but feel moral unease about EA position in the philanthropic world right now. He makes a defensible argument for politics as the means of doing the most good.
While I am here, humbly, I need to ask a burning question: Your advocacy and behaviour are incongruent with respect to consumption; you consume in a degrowth pattern, but advocate for growth, why?
Stephen Fry? (He did a very good job with Harry Potter)