> Text to speech that you can run on your own computer is not great
Understatement of the century.
> I personally like it because it doesn't have the interpretation that human readers bring to stories.
I suspect that you're in the minority for audiobook listeners. Does this mean that you don't like movies because of the interpretation that human actors, directors, videographers, and composers bring to the scripts? I don't enjoy _ever_ narrator, but there are a lot of really fantastic human narrators out there.
> Pretty much everyone acknowledges the books are almost always better. Part of the reason is this, yes.
It's usually not the reason, though. People say "the book is better" because films necessarily have to remove a bunch of content in order to fit within a movie timeframe, which requires changing the narrative arc. That's an entirely unrelated issue.
Understatement of the century.
> I personally like it because it doesn't have the interpretation that human readers bring to stories.
I suspect that you're in the minority for audiobook listeners. Does this mean that you don't like movies because of the interpretation that human actors, directors, videographers, and composers bring to the scripts? I don't enjoy _ever_ narrator, but there are a lot of really fantastic human narrators out there.