Well, what you provided definitely sounds wholly professional in every regard.
I will usually spend the money for a good audio book when its a work I want to consume, one such example I own is The Road To Serfdom - Hayek’s classic. However pretty much the entirety of what I am interested in consuming has no audio component so I am forced to read the pages which I don’t make time for sitting and reading, or I can try going to some fake AI audio thing which I always find terrible, or I can work out a human-produced audio version.
Even with some small issues the human-produced versions, even if amateur, are perfect for my tastes. I don’t have world-class tastes but simple existence is key. :-)
Besides, I think many of our Founders deserve to have an audio book of their life story(s) and even if I don’t listen to all of them its something we all need. The Founders have been erased because nobody puts time into remembering them but progressives surely put time into destroying them.
We need this convenience. We cannot survive without it. Emphasis on the cannot. If I had billion$ I’d make movies but I’m lacking in billions so this is what I can do. It definitely beats sitting, doing nothing, and complaining.
I have heard some VERY well done free books on Libravox. The best was the lady from Waco Texas who read “The Scarlet Pimpernel”. That is a challenging book because French accents are needed everywhere.
I always wanted to see someone do Disckens’ “Tale of Two Cities” as a mini-series (book is too long for a regular movie to do it justice).
There is a climactic scene where the English governess Miss Pross is physically holding the door shut against the very French Madame DeFarge to by time for an escape for her employers. Dickens simply states,
“Each spoke in her own language; neither understood the other’s words; both were very watchful, and intent to deduce from look and manner, what the unintelligible words meant.”
That would look great depicted in a well-done screen adpatation, with each one yelling in her own language.