Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

This abridged audiobook includes every chapter of the print version, but with some deletions and modifications. Completely absent are the dedication, acknowledgements, and epigraph, as well as a copy of an email that Torvalds sent to Diamond, in which he accepts Diamond's proposal to write a book together.

Both Torvalds' and Diamond's parts are written in the first-person mode. However, since Diamond is the sole narrator of everything except the preface, he reads himself in the first-person, but narrates Torvalds in the third-person. Thus, "I made my file system compatible" becomes "Linus made his file system compatible", and so on. In some cases, if a line didn't read well in the third-person, it was omitted entirely.

In my examination, I did not systematically determine what was deleted from the body of the text: I only compared a few fragments from each chapter. My impression, for what it's worth, was that most of the book is intact. None of the deletions that I noticed were longer than two sentences, and in each case the deletion was an editorial decision, rather than a sacrifice made to fit the recording onto CD.