One of the reasons I listen to books is that it's the best format for my flavor of ADHD. No distracting visuals or noises like with TV/movies. It being read to me means I can't wander off with my attention as easily as reading an ebook or traditional book.

And then they started making these "Graphic Audio" books with tons of background noise, ahem, "cinematic music and sound effects." We hates them.

I get that some people may prefer them, but can't the extraneous sound...

#audiobook #books

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Are they doing this on libro.fm?

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As someone with misophonia, yes, it is a nightmare that will cause me to drop the media source immediately and forevermore. I cannot properly express the depths of revulsion and distress that result from getting an unexpected slurp or whisper in my headphones.

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"Dramatized" and abridged? Sounds like something that probably uses noise where description of noise would exist in order to shorten the runtime. I'd expect fewer such things in an unabridged reading that wasn't "dramatized".

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I'm not disputing that, just figuring that there are keywords one could keep an eye out for that would help one avoid what one doesn't want and find what one does.

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Ugh. Don't know what to tell you there beyond telling your library what kind of audiobooks you'd rather have and that you don't want those kinds of replacements to happen.