I think I've got a good "in my head" ear for the Vatta book's character voices. It'll be interesting to hear GraphicAudio's interpretation.

I'll be even MORE interested to hear a Pak's audiobook.

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Vatta's War in Audio? YAY! We've been unable to find an e-text, and I really want my wife to read those. That's the sort of thing she enjoys.

I hope you will forgive me if I highjack this thread for a minute, but it is a somewhat related topic:

My wife is totally blind.

Back when we first met (1997), finding good Sci-Fi was an unpleasant adventure for her. Once you have read everything Asimov ever wrote, you can...go back and read everything Asimov ever wrote again! Then Jim Baen--may he rest in peace in the Library where nothing is ever overdue and all the books are always available--started the Free Library and the CD-ROMs, and the available books for her to read expanded many times over. Then he opened Webscriptions to people with disabilities, and suddenly she had more accessible stuff than the local library (not saying much, there).

The total number of book titles in Braille across human history does not equal the number of new titles in print in a given year. The "accessible" audiobooks are read by volunteers who are very hit-or-miss on quality, and you can only borrow them, and only if they are available.

During this century, we have seen the number of accessible e-texts and professionally-done audiobooks soar, and abridgements are less common now that we use CDs instead of cassettes. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

You may remember me as one of the people who was out hunting ISBNs for you during your unpleasant encounter with Google Books. Now you know why I took that so personally: pray pardon my language, but Google was crapping where we eat!

And to add insult to injury, Google's e-texts aren't accessible! FIE upon them!

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Have you tried librivox? They have some of Andre Norton's writings now.

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