In particular Full Cast editions?
I can understand removing dialogue tags, and even dialogue descriptors. Famously in the new Harry Potter recordings: 'Dumbledore asked calmly' is famously removed due to how polarised that line has become.

Yet things have been changed from the original text in that series' recording.

Order of The Phoenix, end of chapter 16: Dark is changed to Dark-haired (this was originally brought up by me in Harry Potter subs but they were removed and I was banned from one. And at the risk of me being banned from here as well, I will just leave this vague I suppose and get a discussion in the comments going on exactly WHY that line was changed to dark-haired.
The erasure of certain undertones from classic books is dangerous imo. Harry Potter is counted as a classic now, and changing a character's description from dark to dark-haired, after another character says they didn't like them, changes more than just the wording and feel of a scene.
The original text and the US text describes the character physically as dark. A number of translations (German, Mandarin and others) say dark-skinned.
As far as I can tell, the only editions that call the character dark-haired is the new Audible recordings.

I would be interested in getting into a discussion about where the line is with audiobooks on unabridged, who makes that decision, and more importantly, how and why the source material is changed.

There are many more altercations including...
Deathly Hallows, The Epilogue is counted as Chapter 37, but nothing else I could find

Audible. Your awesome. Make my days so much shorter... but can we please get rid of those Virtual Voice audiobooks? They have no emptipn behind them. Makes me cringe to even listen to a sample. Ive seen a huge number of books id love to hear but can't stand the Virtual Voice. Example: THAW by Bryan Dunn.

I was hoping for at least a 2 for 1 credit sale but it doesn’t seem like anything is going to happen?

We use the alexa echo dot to play my gandmother living in an other country to play audible audiobooks.
But since a few weeks we do not see all the books in the library. As she is almost blind, we have far more than 50 books in the account and now can't choose the books for here in the alaexa app to start the book on the echo dot...

Do we have any possibility to hide to old books so they do not show in the 20 books visible in the Alexa app?

Log out of the app, deleting the app and reinstalling, installing it on a new device, login into amazon and audible,... everything did not work.

And starting it by voice is not possible for my grandmother...

Any other ideas?

Following the removal from sale of Sally Rooney books in the UK, I have noticed that the two books I had purchased though audible have been removed from my library. How can this be fair when they have already been sold?

Built a PC audiobook player that keeps your place and opens the book’s PDF beside it

Hi, I listen to a lot of audiobooks on my PC, and I also like building apps. My player kept losing my place in long books, and the companion PDFs (charts, maps, worksheets) were always buried in another folder. So I built a player for my own M4B and MP3 files that:

• picks up exactly where you left off, every time
• opens the book’s PDF right next to the audio, and remembers the page
• shows chapters, plays a folder of MP3s as one book, and has speed and a sleep timer

It works with DRM-free files (M4B/MP3), not Audible’s protected downloads.

It’s Windows-only for now and I’m deciding whether to develop it further. If you’re interested, there’s an interest list with a few quick questions at https://a30v.com/books. I’d also love to hear what your current player gets wrong.

Thanks, James

I just experienced the throttling for the first time after buying a few new audiobooks and trying to download them with OpenAudible. I then deleted my account info on OpenAudible and reconnected, and the converting worked for about 20 books before I got throttled again. I tried deleting and reconnecting again, but it didn't work this time. So now I need another way to convert the audiobooks to mp3/m4b, and if there isn't one, I'm canceling Audible. Is there a different way to convert the files? I know there is Libation, but wouldn't I have the same issues? And does anyone have a suggestion for what to replace Audible with?

Hey yall I’m taking a 4.5/5 hour road trip (each way) with my mom. Wonder if anyone has a good book that is 6-8 hours long. True crime is the favorite but here is a list of books we both enjoyed.

1. Roadkill by Dennis e taylor

2. Project Hail Mary by andy weir

3. All the colors of the dark by chris Whitaker

4. We used to live here by Marcus kliewer

5. The life we bury by Allen awakens

I have about 8 hrs left in chrysalis book 3. Is the series worth finishing with? I was thinking about He who fights with monsters. Just finished Gentleman Bastards before this and DCC before that. Has anyone finished the Chrysalis series? What are your thoughts as you went along?

Help! I just wanted to download 6 new purchases & got “Throttled” on openaudible. I then moved to itunes & was able to get one of the books but the remainder downloads have “failed”

What the heck! I am long time member with over 3k books. Thank goodness I’ve backed all but these six up

My open audible is up to date

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Does anybody know why audible would still be trying to bill me when I canceled my membership like 3 months ago? Luckily i keep my card locked so the charge hasn't went through but it tries at least once a week. I'm 100% positive it's been canceled. I've been debating deleting my account to see if that works but I'm worried that if it doesn't work then I will NEVER be able to figure out how to make it stop.. any suggestions?

I’m listening to the audiobook and reading the ebook and there’s sentences missing frequently in the audible version? It’s so frustrating! Because I’m reading along and there’ll be chunks in the book that are missing from the audiobook or different wording in the book than what’s being read to me. Does this bother anyone else? It’s a great book too! Just started it but it’s so interesting so I was just curious as to if these things with audible bother others. :)

Can't get app to install at all. Other play store apps install fine.

You can recommend Englisch books, Since I’m from Germany, it would be a big bonus if the book is also available in a German edition, although that’s not a requirement. I hope I have luck and there’s a English version.

The button still works, but the clear and tint modes have been around for a while now, so I’m surprised this is still a bug.

I loved the new Dracula Audible original with the full cast and the immersion. I’m not too familiar with Audible. Can you give suggestions based of me liking that? Fantasy a s classic novels and series that are immersive and full cast? I see “dramatization” and idk what the difference is. Also I’m down with it being well known books. I’m probably leaning more towards that because I have a lot I haven’t read yet.

Some audiobooks (self hypnosis meditation, sleep tones, learn x while you sleep) have sections that are quite literally designed to loop! I don't understand how this feature of every respectable player app still doesn't exist in the audible apps...it's not a bandwidth issue, you download the audiobooks. it isn't Youtube, constant novel engagement should not be the goal of a platform where you're trying to fully digest books that you bought.

So I got 8 hours into Great Big Beautiful Life before I realized it was a romance novel (maybe I’m slow). I was going to abandon it because the sex scenes kinda made me just zone out. But then I realized I liked the narrator too much and went back to it and finished it.

I really think the narrator is a huge part of what makes me stick with an audiobook, so I thought I’d look at what else Julia Whelan narrated. And they all seem to be romances? Does anyone know any good ones she’s read that aren’t? Or at least ones where the romance is a very small part of it?

Thanks!

I have reached out to Amazon, they send me around in circles and misunderstand the widespread problem.

I use Immersion Reading for my visual impairments. If I buy both Kindle & Audible versions, with Read & Listen whispersync-for-voice, I am finding if I pause audio for a couple of secs/mins, when I resume Play again, it defaults to Assistive Reader (the robotic voice) instead of restarting my professionally narrated Audible version

I realise there is a setting in the Kindle App to toggle Assistive Voice On/Off, and I have absolutely disabled and toggled Assistive Reader off, but for a few years now every time I Pause/Play Audible, it switches to the Assistive Voice and not the Audible Narration I've paid for and downloaded within the Kindle app.

I also realise I could just use Audible alone, but I want to be able to use text and narration together and if I've purchased both Kindle and Audible, and they are synced together, it should not keep switching to Assistive Voice. I often look words up, or mishear them and check and if I've purchased both Audible & Kindle, it's not cheap, and I expect to be able to access both versions in the way I've paid extra to do.

The temporary fix is:

Open screen - Pause playback, - Close book altogether - Go back to Library - Open same book again - see if Audible will play.

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't and I have to keep closing it/opening it until eventually my Audible version comes back.

This is very frustrating if I'm carrying my phone in back pocket and doing chores, or answering the door, or pausing to speak to someone. I can't safely pause my Audible Narration and resume Playback again without it defaulting to Assistive Voice. This happens on my phones X 2, and my tablet. And it happens with EVERY single book/audiobook of synced versions.

Does anyone else find Assistive Voice won't stop interfering with Audible Narration in Kindle?

Amazon absolutely know about this but the first level of CS is not to feed back to the technical departments; it's to apologise, deflect and point to settings and always asks you to remove book and download it again. Yes that fixes it for a few seconds until next time I pause.

I find myself shouting out to hubbie "I can't talk to you, I've got a book playing, is it important? ", because sometimes I pause the book for a few secs, he says something like "It's nothing, doesn't matter" then I press play again and the darned Assistive Voice is back again!

I did once have ChatGPT explain what's happening and word a message to Amazon to escalate it to the engineers because it looks like a setting for resuming in the software is defaulting to the wrong action. Amazon said "someone will look into this and get back to you". Never heard from them again. I think I must have reported this about 20 times since it started happening. And I bet I'm not the only person this has happened to.

Trying to buy a few books with credits, and one with cash. I have $15 in credit, but Audible is a bit confused.