Figures in Audiobooks? · Non-Fiction Author Lab

Figures in Audiobooks?

Okay,

, your recent video on Eleven Labs got me thinking about doing my audiobook. :)

Since I have a professional podcast setup and am a former radio guy myself, I decided to record it. I'm using Descript for the recording and editing and it's going pretty smoothly.

Since my book uses a lot (like a LOT a LOT) or footnotes, I went through my book and pulled the more important ones up as in-line asides where I'm pausing and voicing "footnote." I rewrote some of the straight research reference ones so I could read them aloud.

For figures, I'm mentioning the figure number and providing a good "alt-text" like description of the diagram. One part of my book has DOZENS of diagrams because I'm using examples of my card deck, like the one attached. I'm still reading each card.

But I'm wondering if it might be a neat idea to create a hidden page on my website that contains all of the figures so people could flip through them or pull them up as a reference. It would also make for a great call to action to direct traffic to my site.

Has anyone done this? Did you just set up like a media gallery with all of the images? How do you "protect" or provide access to audiobook listeners? Am I overthinking this?

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