HP audio versions

[Petra Pan]

Petra:
> > Semi-framing his face are various
> > annotated manuscript pages.
> > 
> > One of which is a page from the chapter
> > entitled "The Dark Mark."  Nothing earth 
> > shattering here - just a funny tidbit: at the

> > top is what look to be a reminder "Winky -
> > not too Dobby!"  The page
> > layout pegs Dale's 'script' for his vocal
> > performance as being the US hardback.

Amy:
> Yes, he reads the US versions, as LOONS know
> from the very first 
> chapter, when the new word Dudley learns is
> "Won't!"  The covers are 
> also a bit of a giveaway.  :-P

Yup, just as Fry reads from the UK versions for
the UK audiobooks.  What I meant is that for some
inexplicable reason, whereas the US HB designates
the stools as being 'three-legged,' the US PB
describes it as being 'four-legged.'

Not kidding...I checked to make sure I didn't
just imagine that difference when I had to stop
at the bookstore earlier.

I suspect that Brian is hearing the US HB as he
reads the US PB which is why they didn't
reconcile exactly.  Right Brian?

Amy:
> I think I've told this story before, but
> repetition is the privilege 
> of old age (says the woman who was *not* in
> first grade when the 
> Challenger blew up).  Before I'd even cracked
> open an HP, I heard Jim 
> Dale interviewed on All Things Considered.  GF
> must have just come 
> out, and they were asking him about the
> process.  He said it took 
> about 10 days to tape and that he hadn't read
> the whole thing when he 
> began; he could only read enough each night to
> prepare for the next 
> day's taping (how does one read a mystery
> properly if one doesn't 
> know whodunnit?  But he pulls it off).  So when
> he encountered Winky, 
> he gave her the same voice he'd given Dobby. 
> Then, to his dismay, he 
> discovered he was going to have to create a
> dialogue between them.  
> He created a new voice for Winky and retaped
> the QWC bits.

<titter>  That's funny.

Because I was wearing out my magnetic audio
cassettes, I had borrowed the HP books on CD a
few times.  Guess what?  Even the audiobooks
themselves are of various editions:

- in the earlier editions, the order of emergence
for James and Lily at the graveyard scene in GoF
is reversed, just as it is in the earlier
editions of the books, and

- in an old post about audiobooks, I noted what
seemed to be a discrepancy between the running
times of the US and the UK audiobooks.  My
mistake.  It turns out I must have one of the
earliest versions of US GoF audiobooks for it
gave the running time as 'Approx. 20 Hours' which
sounded like almost an hour's difference from the
running time on the UK versions.  Later versions
puts it at almost exactly the same length as the
UK version.

There's probably more that I haven't noticed.  So
Brian, noted any other discrepancies?

Petra
a
n  :)

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