This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library.

Controversy has been swirling around Audible's latest exclusive: a full-cast reading of Bram Stoker's Dracula starring, in the English edition, Jonathan Bailey and Ella Purnell. Detractors are skeptical of a separate "complimentary story" featuring an interactive AI-assisted rendition of the side-character Renfield, but The Meow Library has discovered an even more glaring issue with this otherwise ornate and comprehensive production: it is totally incomprehensible to your cat. While Audible has produced full English, French, Italian, Castilian Spanish, Latin American Spanish, German, and Brazilian Portuguese versions of the audiobook and its AI-assisted collateral, they have no plans at present of releasing a feline edition. To create a more equitable listening experience, The Meow Library is making the first chapter of Bram Stoker's Dracula available to your cat here.

This podcast is brought to you by The Meow Library's new translation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, featuring over 160,000 instances of the word "meow." It's available here.

Growing up I thought books were boring, in reality I just didn’t read anything that actually interested me. Which is why I teamed up with James Patterson to write The Most Dangerous Games! For many people this might be the first book they actually read (and hopefully enjoy haha) give it a read and tell me what you think :D

- MrBeast via X

MrBeast's new collaboration with James Patterson is being touted almost exclusively as a meeting of two "Number-Ones": the world's #1 streamer has commissioned a work product by the world's #1 bestselling author. Its contents are an afterthought, if not totally irrelevant. The result, The Most Dangerous Games, is being called "the first book for people who hate reading," and MrBeast's own anemic sales pitch implies as much. The Meow Library--known for Meow: A Novel (2022), an international bestseller consisting only of repetitions of the word "meow," takes umbrage at this characterization. In this week's podcast, The Meow Library team tells you what a book for a people who hate reading is really like.

This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library.

Is the end of reading here, and does it matter?

The Meow Library has the definitive answer.

This podcast is sustained by proceeds from the internationally bestselling Meow: A Novel.