Typically, an editor will go through the text, removing elements, references, and scenes that seem superfluous or redundant. In nonfiction, editors often nix references and technical details.
Notice is often provided if the author approves of an abridgment. Over the decades, abridged versions have had several advantages. In a pre—podcast marathon era, some producers believed that people had limited patience to sit through double-digit hours of audio. Yet listening to books does flex slightly different mental muscles than visual reading. The continuing snobbishness over print books has been especially fierce where abridged audiobooks are concerned. Others have shared the sentiment.
The Talking Book Selection Committee for the Talking Book Library, the British service for soldiers who had become visually impaired during battle, refused in the s to include abridged books.
The concern over literary credibility extended to organizations supporting blind people. Doing otherwise risked being perceived as substandard in terms of literacy. So abridged audiobooks have at various points been aimed at visually impaired people as well as shunned by organizations supporting them, in an attempt to avoid the stigma of the abridged audiobook.
Yet Caedmon thumbed its nose at unabridged purists. We are going to discuss abridged and unabridged books as a format which is commonly applied to audio books. An unabridged book has the original content; it is not condensed or shortened in any way and is exactly as it was when originally published. It is a true representation of how the author wrote the story. An abridged Audiobook is a shortened version of the audiobook, it is condensed by using fewer words, but still retains a sense of the original book.
Some folks are very decisive about which format is best for them; many purists insist on reading the unabridged version regardless of anything else, they feel they are missing out if they read the abridged version. Others will choose the abridged version because they see certain advantages because the book has been suitably altered.
It is common for an audio book to be made available both an abridged and unabridged versions but usually the abridged is published first and costs much less. It is not unusual for each version to be released independently of each other. Unabridged books are more complete longer in content compared to the abridged books having simpler shorter content. Unabridged books are best for the recreational type of readers while the abridged books are best for students.
Unabridged books are generally more boring than abridged versions because of their lengthy nature. Unabridged books are learned longer because it requires more time to finish compared to abridged versions.
So that there is no confusion I will quote an excerpt from Wikipedia which reads as follows:. It needs to be made clear that an abridged book has been altered or shortened for a variety of reasons.
What has been altered is not formally declared by the publisher leaving the prospective reader wondering what was omitted and why? Many book categories offer an abridged version; novels, audiobooks, and even reference books, sometimes the intention is to make it more marketable by making the book shorter by cutting all but the most important information, in doing so they will often be easier to understand.
TV broadcasts and movies are often cut for the same reasons. Books are abridged in order to remove questionable content. They may also be abridged in order to reduce the overall size of the material to make it faster to download and faster to finish listening. Each version has its positives and negatives. When you listen to, or read, an unabridged version of a book, you can be certain you are listening to the book exactly as the author meant for you to hear it.
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