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Re:LibriVox: Free Public Domain Audiobooks by reallydontask on Thursday June 18, 2020 @03:20AM (#23560603)
> Or is it just a matter of “download, listen and see if it’s good enough or move on”?

Pretty much.

It can be pretty annoying when a book has multiple narrators as the quality can vary significantly, so you might get deep into a book before you start getting consistently bad narrators.

I can't remember the book now, but it put me off using LibriVox forever.

Now I try the local library app or the app from the local library where I used to live and if that fails there is always audible.

Re:LibriVox: Free Public Domain Audiobooks by JadeNB on Thursday June 18, 2020 @09:42AM (#23563015)
> It can be pretty annoying when a book has multiple narrators as the quality can vary significantly, so you might get deep into a book before you start getting consistently bad narrators.

I think one of the most annoying experiences I had was when they changed narrators in the third book of the Takeshi Kovacs series. It wasn't even that the third narrator was bad, especially, just that he sounded wrong—but I was far too invested to set it aside at that point.