Differences between the text and the audio books

[frobisherw]

I've only noticed two big differences between the text and the audio book, both associated with the tables of Seven Ten lists -- likely because it isn't possible to get across the same point purely in audio as is done with a visual table.

I'll likely update this post with transcripts of what the audio books do, as well as the original text -- but I'd love to hear any comments from others about the topic!

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third=last one, starting on page 260, bold is unchanged from the original

[buhrger]

“Causa gravissima debest si Anonymus mendacios vulgat. (The cause must be serious if the Anonymous is publishing lies). Hos quoque ecce. (Look at this too.)” At Caesar’s will the Vice President vanished, replaced by the newest chart, two lists side-by-side, the so-called “Altered list” which we had seen in the Censor’s office, and which we were now to believe was actually the work of hackers, and next to it the new “real list.” But the supposed “altered” list was the real one, I had no doubt—we had worked with it in the Censor’s office. The Anonymous was retro-fibbing, faking interference, pretending his original list had been hacked to make it look like the same mysterious enemies that had targeted Black Sakura had gone after the Anonymous too. There was only one difference between the two lists, Hotaka Andō Mitsubishi, who was much higher on this new supposedly-real list, as if hackers had moved him down on the other but left the rest the same. It was brilliant. The substitution was so plausible, just what an anti-Mitsubishi conspirator might have altered to make it feel like everyone was ranking the Mitsubishi low. This would make it seem as if Andō’s general fall in the lists was faked by a conspiracy rather than a symptom of any real Mitsubishi crisis, and it would draw attention away from poor Black Sakura. He found a way. The Censor’s powers could do nothing, but the Anonymous had found a way.

Re: third=last one, starting on page 260, bold is unchanged from the original

[frobisherw]

There are a few more unchanged bits:

It was brilliant. The substitution was so plausible, just what an anti-Mitsubishi conspirator might have altered to make it feel like everyone was ranking the Mitsubishi low."

“altered” list was the real one, I had no doubt—we had worked with it in the Censor’s office. The Anonymous was retro-fibbing

attention away from poor Black Sakura.

Lost text

[frobisherw]

The material from the original that isn't reproduced in the audio is:

I took my time in thinking, my toes tracing nervous circles on the stone.

swapping in a list that made the Mitsubishi come out better, and, by crying "My list was targeted too!" drawing

Interesting differences

[frobisherw]

The biggest difference that jumps out at me is the inclusion of the word "hackers" and "hacked". Unless I've missed it, the book never uses the word, merely saying "someone had tampered", "someone intercepts", "this tampering", "substitutions", "interference".