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Lori
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Jul 28, 2022 01:28PM
The Dark Somnium is one of those YouTuber channels that reads Internet creepypastas. He has done one of
The Left Right Game
by Jack Anderson Northman. This audio narration is on YouTube only. Can it be added as a valid book record?
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I don't believe so, but do you know any publication details for the book itself? I don't see where it is available.
No idea. I only know it from Dark Somnium. Apparently it was originally posted to Reddit Nosleep and was adapted into a podcast miniseries at one point.
This may depend on the book. Authors who have YouTube channels where they post audio of their printed books, sometimes with the author as narrator, might be okay. While authors who do podcasts then post on YouTube might not be.
I can't imagine something like this would be considered a book.I know that "podcasts" are not valid.
On a related note, someone seems to have merged Jack Anderson into Jack Anderson Northman, so many of these books need to be corrected.
It's an audiobook just like any other, it just happens to be on YouTube instead of Audible or a CD.The Left Right Game was included on a list of podcasts (it appears in the record). I'm guessing most of them need to be deleted.
