Chapter 1 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

Summary: Marco certainly never intends to make potentially world-altering discoveries. But when a chance encounter with an old friend doing work for the Sharing turns up something strange, what're the Animorphs to do but investigate? Well, it turns out that Erek isn't a Human-Controller...because he's not human at all.

Notes: I've got a couple of other big projects (including my next official audiobook) going on right now, so I can't guarantee that updates on this will be quite as consistent as the last few books have been, but I will do my very best! Hope you enjoy! Don't forget to support the official Animorph audiobooks!

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Chapter 2 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

Dog effect: https://freesound.org/people/ScouseMouseJB/sounds/276267/

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Chapter 3 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

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Chapter 4 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

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Chapter 5 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

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Chapter 6 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

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Chapter 7 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

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Chapter 8 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

Storytime! Man, I had a heck of a freak-out with this episode - you guys don't know how lucky you are to get this on time! So, I've got most of this book recorded already, it just needs editing, yeah? I opened up this chapter two days ago and got started, and right when I hit my usual quick-save, my computer crashes and dies. The computer was fine after a restart, but the problem was, since the save file was in the process of being overwritten, there was not only no save, but NO AUTO-BACKUP for ANY of this book. I still technically had the actual audio, but it was in 5000+ 6-second pieces with no project file to tell it how to be assembled (why Audacity organizes its audio that way, I have no idea). I thought I was faced with piecing together the audio bit by bit (about 20 hours of work) or rerecording everything from Ch. 8 on (about 3 hours of work, but requiring quiet house time I didn't have available), and was SO disheartened, you have no idea. I spent a bunch of time at work yesterday and the day before sneaking moments of research on Google, trying to figure out if there was a way to recover it.

Short answer. No.

BUT! I remembered right when I got home last night that I actually HAD made a backup file! I'd backed up ALL my audiobook files just a few days ago! Sure, I lost the edits for Ch. 7, but that's already complete, so who cares, the important thing is that I HAD ALL OF THE RAW AUDIO! IN ORDER! READY TO EDIT! So I hurried and got today's chapter finished late last night and you guys don't have to wait a week until the next time I would have been able to rerecord. YAY!

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Chapter 9 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

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Chapter 10 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

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Chapter 11 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

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Chapter 12 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

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Chapter 13 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

Sorry today's chapter is so short - I'm trying to keep on deadline with my other projects though and just didn't have time to do an extra chapter for this one!

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Chapter 14 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

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Chapter 15 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

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Chapter 16 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

A nice long one today!

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Chapter 17 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

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Chapter 18 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

Almost had to delay this chapter due to narrating the wrong character name right at the beginning. But my editing skills have gotten pretty good these last couple of years, and I was able to copy/paste the correct name in instead of having to do a pickup (rerecord a line). Guarantee you can't even tell! I totally feel cool right now.

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Chapter 19 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

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Chapter 20 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

Do you think authors realize if there are potential tongue twisters in their works, or if it's just coincidence that only a narrator notices? "Looking for the Subtle Secret Signals that would Start me Spinning Silk." (And even though I nailed it on the first try, I was so proud, I had to pause and reset anyway so I didn't break character! lol)

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Chapter 21 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

Sorry for the few hours delay! There was a truck doing work on the road in front of our house first thing this morning and they accidentally knocked out the internet for a while. But it's back now!

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Chapter 22 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

Wow, this is the 300th episode of Animorphs Aloud! Thanks so much to all the listeners who have enjoyed this with me! (Especially those that have reached out and commented, or reviewed, or subscribed! You are the ones that really make my day!)

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Chapter 23 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

Bear roar from Videvo.

I couldn't decide whether to use a sound effect for the alarm or not. While I love using actual animal noises for the animal sounds (mostly because of my inability to do decent onomatopoeic impressions), I don't want to go overboard and become distracting. I'd love feedback on whether other sound effects (like for the gunshots, dracon beams, alarms, and the like) are liked or disliked!

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Chapter 24 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

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Chapter 25 of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

I think Erek's dialogue in this chapter was the hardest section of all the books I've done so far to get right emotionally. Making an android sound devastated is not an easy thing. But I think it came out alright.

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Chapter 26, the final chapter of The Android, part 10 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

Sorry again for the audio confusion this past week! I will definitely try to be more on top of things for the next books!

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The entirety of Book 10, The Android (Ch. 1 - 26), for Animorphs Aloud. Thanks for listening!

Summary: Marco certainly never intends to make potentially world-altering discoveries. But when a chance encounter with an old friend doing work for the Sharing turns up something strange, what're the Animorphs to do but investigate? Well, it turns out that Erek isn't a Human-Controller...because he's not human at all.

If you want to hear more of my audiobooks, find me at the links below:

Twitter: @RenatheReader

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Website: RenaGail.com