About the time I first found this site, I started listening to Star Wars audio books. I really enjoy audio books, and since I prefer as complete a story as possible, I always seek the unabridged version. For the longest time, Wookieepedia stated that the OT had an unabridged version, but my quest to find it proved fruitless, and Wookieepedia was eventually changed (not by me). Now, the PT got very high quality audio books. Several other Star Wars stories got unabridged audio books. But the OT did not. I suspect that part of the reason was to remove portions that were not in line with how the movies played out, such as elements that highlighted that Vader and Anakin were originally different individuals or that the Emperor was originally a figurehead. But I really like the OT novels and would love to see them with a high quality unabridged audio book set.

What I am proposing is a project to record our own OT unabridged audio books that could be distributed as freely as desired across the World Wide Web. I’ve had a desire to do this for some time, but I haven’t gotten around to it, and I’m tied up with another project at the present in my limited spare time. However, if no one gets on this, I’m sure I’ll eventually record my voice, pleasantly divine as it is 😉 I also would ultimately be able to edit it too, if no one with more time or talent wanted to do it. But even if I end up being the one to get it that far, I wouldn’t be very good at adding special effects, if we really wanted an extra fun version. I definitely can’t do it alone, and I probably wouldn’t be able to do any of it for a long time. But what I’m also saying is that if someone else wanted to do it, it’s definitely a worthwhile project in my mind, and I thought I should propose it.