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 so many audiobooks i want to listen to.
so few voices i can listen to for the length of an audio book.
🤷 
 😂 I don know how many times the first word uttered out of the readers mouth and my immediate reaction is NO. Next. 
 yep. first sentence tells all. 
 i didn't know you all were so bougie 😂 
 i got your bougie right here 
 I wanted to record audiobooks, but I'm afraid people would fall asleep with my voice. haha that's what bothers you? I think I'm better at reading children's books. 
 if you think your voice would make people fall asleep, it’s probably exactly the audio book voice i look for. 
people try too hard to be dynamic, and they have an idea in their head of what they’re supposed to sound like. stopping that usually makes everything better. 
 you are making me think about the possibility again! haha in English I can't right now, I would have to read a lot to be able to record an audio book. but it was nice to know that maybe it would be wanted. 
 eh, i got used to whichever text-to-speech is available on my phone to read epub files i download. every now and then i'll switch it up and/or adjust the pace or tone.

librera reader is great for this (also supports 3rd party TTS voices) 
 i haven’t actually experimented with that. 🤔