Interesting. The person doing the audio has to leave out a lot of the content or do they not?
They are usually true to the printed version.
The narrator does impact the book. I’ve had a few that I couldn’t finish because of the way it was read. I had one where the reader had a “valley girl” lilt at the end of every sentence. It was maddening.
But 99% of them are well produced.
Why would you think that? Books I’ve listened to seemed to be complete.
Unless a book is very complex, as in some scientific or philosophical works, listening to a nonfiction audiobook isn’t very different from listening to a radio interview.
I just can’t follow fiction audiobooks as well as nonfiction. When reading fiction I tend to ‘see’ or visualize what is described in the mind’s eye; and that greatly enhances the experience for me.
It’s not so much of an issue with nonfiction.