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by martinpw 2614 days ago
> Those recordings are just as good as Audible recordings.

No. They are not. I tried listening to Don Quixote Librivox. While a couple of readers are tolerable, several are terrible, and none are close to professional voice actor level. Which makes it really hard to get through. Check out the comments here too if you don't want to subject yourself to listening to the reading itself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLTTJo0E1ag

Audible recordings in general are vastly superior.