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Free Audiobooks – Download from July – OzBargain
To entice new teen listeners, top audiobook producers have donated two FREE audiobooks a week – one YA book paired with one classic title. Please note, downloads are available from July 1st to September 1st. Here's the list of titles. …
Publish Date: 06/03/2010 15:42
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Our congratulations go out to LibriVox on the release of their 1,000th public domain audio book. We first told you about LibriVox in January of this year. You can review that post here. Since than they show no signs of slowing down. Their mission is to record and freely distribute as many public domain audio books as possible with the help of volunteer narrators.
LibriVox.org was established in August of 2005…Thirteen people collaborated to make the first recording, Joseph Conrad’s Secret Agent and just over two years later the free audio book project has just cataloged its 1,000th book: Murders in the Rue Morgue, by Edgar Allan Poe (read by Reynard T. Fox).
With the help of many volunteers LibriVox is now putting out 60-70 books a month, and their catalog includes Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Moby Dick, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Einstein’s Relativity: The Special and General Theory, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. They have recorded in 21 languages, and about half of their titles are narrated by one reader and the other half are collaborations among many readers.
You can find out more here.
I’m sure most of you are familiar with the term Public Domain if not you can go Here to learn about it.
Anyway as I was surfing the net the other day I ran across a website with what I consider to be very noble objective and that is to make all the works in the pubic domain available on the internet in audio format for free.
The website is Librivox and it can be found Here. Here’s what they say about themselves on their home page: “LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting?”
Librivox maintains a new searchable catalog of all their completed projects and their works in progress at Here.
If you’re at all interested in listening to any of the old classics I highly recommend that you give them a visit and see if any of your favorites are alvailable. And if you can’t find what your looking for they take requests.
You may recognize many of these titles that I ran across on my visit: War of the Worlds, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Tom Sawyer, Treasure Island, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, Heidi, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, A Christmas Carol, The Invisible Man and that’s just to name a few.
All of the work is done by volunteers and if you’d be interested in helping they have many positions available.
It really is a wonderful site, I hope you enjoy it.
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