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You seem to understand english well enough that you know that the title, as stated, is a lie. It's simply not true regardless of whatever rationalizations you can come up with. You barely making money off it doesn't make it true. Users being able to buy a $15/month subscription to listen to 10 hours of audio doesn't make it true.

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1. There are 70,000 audiobooks in the catalog, and people can listen to them. If audio is generated on-demand in the background, it does not make them "not-audiobooks", and it does not make my post a lie.

It's just a technical implementation detail. And I'm not hiding it; I'm describing it in the post. I cannot describe the implementation detail in the short title.

It's just that you decided to believe that it's a lie, saying it very confidently, and taking down the post that was received generally very positively.

2. It's not a subscription, it's one-time purchase of hours.

It's not all on you. I can see that culturally in marketing this has become acceptable for many people. I just think it is unfair for people who want to be honest in their titles or thumbnails etc. But that's not really the standard. I was just complaining about something, not about you only.

I really didn't intend to be dishonest.

I just wrote a catchy title (which can be a bit misleading, but not dramatically, as all the audiobooks I'm mentioning are really accessible to people; I developed all the infrastructure needed for that), and tried to clarify everything in the post itself.

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