I have recently been getting back into audiobooks and was discussing them with a friend when this question came up. Obviously picture/comic books, manga and the like would not work in the format, but what other kind of books would not work in an audio format?

I was thinking House of Leaves for the obvious reasons, but is there a book you can think of that narratively or otherwise would not be well translated to audiobook?

OR a book that would need to be read in a certain way in order for an audio format to work?

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    10 months ago

    I have been reading a lot of classic greek lit (On Histories by Herodotus now). These books would be terrible as audiobooks due to the sheer number of footnotes and language used.

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      10 months ago

      Question of the day has been how to turn footnotes into voiced reading…