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Related - has anyone listened to the new audiobooks with Bill Nighy, Peter Serafinowicz, and so on? I'm interested because they're unabridged and look like they have very high production values, but they're also quite pricey (understandably so) if you want to buy them and download them permanently.

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I have not, but I listened to all of them as narrated by Steven Briggs and quite enjoyed them. They are also unabridged, and were all available for free through Libby through my library.

Having different voices for the footnotes is the main thing from the new one that I could see being a big improvement—Briggs's footnotes are read in the same tone as the rest of the narration.

Briggs is very good. I will always have his voice and cadence in my head for Vimes. I was very happy with the audio books, and sadly I can’t often say that. The Audible versions are of mixed audio quality, some pretty bad, which is strange.

So far I've found them good (Small Gods & Witches), but Bill Nighy, who does the footnotes in the most bland ADR tone after an annoying charm effect, is by far the worst part. If you can get past or enjoy those the rest is great.

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