LibriVox provides free audio books and files of literary classics which are in the public domain. Take a look at http://www.librivox.org
Rather than famous actors lending their vocal talents to the readings, the audio books here are read out by volunteers.
All of the audio books are literary classics and are out of copyright so they can be downloaded and listened to free of charge.
You will not find any Dan Brown or John Grisham but classics like Jane Austen's Emma and Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are all here.
At present there are nearly 650 audio titles to choose from.
Selecting Listen on the homepage leads to the catalogue. Titles can be searched by author or title or you can simply browse through the whole catalogue.
Once a title has been selected, there is a brief description of the work along with links to further information about the author. Scrolling down the page reveals the file format available for download; right click to save to your hard drive and you are away.
The list of titles is not as long as I would like, but it is growing all the time and the quality of the recordings is generally very good.
2 comments:
Thanks for the review, Bill! It's always nice to be getting new listeners (and maybe new readers, too ... LibriVox is completely volunteer-based and run, and everyone's welcome to help out.)
Just to comment on the number of 'books' available, though ... it's currently 2,339. That includes 336 projects in languages other than English (27 other languages, plus some very mixed multilingual collections). The books do vary from little poetry collections, collections of short stories or essays, right up to full readings of Moby Dick and Jane Eyre and many non-fiction titles by authors like Darwin, Kant and Einstein. We're still working on Mrs Beeton! Because volunteers read what they like, we do have multiple version of some books, so listeners can have a "choice of voice" too. :)
CORI: Excellent. thanks for updating me on this. Feel free to add further information to help promote it
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