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FROM: "Debbie Stefano" <[removed]@camden.lib.nj.us>
REC'D: 12/13/99, 1:38 PM

I agree with you, Mary -- unabridged is best! I have been an avid listener
for years (I'm currently "reading" Diana Gabaldon's Drums of Autumn from
Recorded Books, 45 hours) and listen only to unabridged.

The reader is definitely the key! At my former job, I had a customer who
would listen to anything read by George Guidall. As far as she was
concerned, he could read the phone book and she would listen!

We did not include fiction audiobooks as part of the fiction circ stats;
they were a separate line item in tabulating the monthly stats. I do know
that we couldn't keep the audiobooks on the shelf!

I've used them to introduce certain authors to reluctant readers. This is
especially helpful when the audiobook is the first of a series -- I've had
customers who will then read the other books by that author.

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
[<A HREF="mailto:owner-fiction_l@maillist.nslsilus.org]On">mailto:owner-fiction_l@maillist.nslsilus.org]On</A> Behalf Of Mary Van Dyke
Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 12:31 PM
To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org'
Subject: Re: Books I hated


this opens up a new topic for comments--I find that most of my Books on
Tape patrons prefer the unabridged as do I. We have been worried that our
fiction circulation has been slowly eroding: I was really worried until I
saw
that our unabridged fiction audiobooks were flying out of the
library. Then I realized how hooked on them I was(my family gives me gift
cetificates to Recorded Books for birthdays, Mothers Day,etc) even though
our local libraries have great audiobook collections.

Most definately I think the reader is key to loving an audiobook--I
enjoy the Patrick Tull readings of Patrick O'Brian's Napoleanic era
sea sagas, but cannot stand another vendors version. Shelby Foote reading
anything is superb, and the Mitford series from Recorded Books always
has reserves. We have McCourts "TIS on order and already have 5 reserves
even though we have at least 10 copies of the book.

Do others agree with me that fiction audiobooks should count for
circulating fiction statistics? What is more popular at your library
abridged or unabridged books audiobooks?

Mary Van Dyke
Glenview (IL) Public Library

FROM: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
REC'D: 12/13/99, 3:10 PM

I am a person that got hooked on the abridged version of audiobooks.
I had been doing them for awhile and listened to "Snow Falling on Cedars"
When it was over I felt something was missing or that I missed something.
Ever since then I have been listening to unabridged. I find them
more satisfying. Yes, I believe they should be counted in the
library statistics. They are a fiction book "read." I will keep
doing them because they help expose me to more than I could ever read.
Some of the Oprah books that are kind of depressing I feel are very good
on tape. The end result is the same and their importance is getting stronger
in our library. I have no statistics on abridged/unabridged but we are
definately getting more of the unabridged.
Thanks.
Sue Levinsohn
Cuyahoga County Public Library (suburb/Cleveland)
Berea Branch

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