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▲ haroldp 2 hours ago

I have become a huge fan of AudioBooks lately, but how in the /hell/ do you listen to Infinite Jest?? With the end notes? With end notes of end notes? With whole chapters hidden in an end note? It was challenging enough on paper. That would do my nut in.

▲jerkstate 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The end notes are interspersed throughout the book where they're referenced, and then a bell rings before returning to the main text. That's why I listened to it twice. I remember towards the end of the first listen-through, I sort-of recalled some of the earlier end-notes, like for example Himself's filmography, which I had basically ignored the first time through, but listened to intently the second time through.

▲stevenwoo 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The audiobook version I listened to had different narrators for main text and footnote with audio cue when footnote started as well.