audiobooks

[Impenitent]

I found this which provides free, legitimate downloads of audio books - lots of classics! Twain, London, HG Wells, Lewis Carroll, etc. Some are human narration, some are text to speech (not so good), but I thought I should share.

http://freeclassicaudiobooks.com/

Maybe others have sites bookmarked with similar offers?

[kams]

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/1

Project Gutenberg's list of human-read audio books. I am listening to Jane austen's "Emma" right now.

[Impenitent]

Kams, I thank you so profoundly! Through your link I have discovered two fabulous activities with which to get involved!

The Project Gutenberg site offers the opportunity for interested people to become involved in the meticulous and very worthwhile process of adding new public domain books to their available library. One can join the huge group of proofreaders and processors by simply registering on:

http://www.pgdp.net/c/

I've already registered and, after spending some time reading through all the proofreading guidelines, have already proofread almost 20 pages from 5 different books.

I feel very excited about it; it's a fantastic feeling to think that I am contributing to such a worthwhile endeavour. The books are varied; fiction, poetry, journals, mathematics and science texts - a huge array, and some are not easily found elsewhere as many are out of print.

And, of course, I've been listening to audio books as I work (not while proofreading though ) and became curious about the attribution of each audiofile. I looked it up and discovered yet another gem:

http://librivox.org/

librivox seeks volunteers to create audiobooks (from public domain texts) to be made available free through the internet! I think I may volunteer to do that too!

[Frelga]

The Project Gutenberg site offers the opportunity for interested people to become involved in the meticulous and very worthwhile process of adding new public domain books to their available library. One can join the huge group of proofreaders and processors by simply registering on:

http://www.pgdp.net/c/

Thank you for bringing this up, Impish. I have meant to for a while. I've been proofreading regularly for a few months before other RL and online activities got in the way. I got to 100 pages. My projects included a dramatic pirate story, a treatise on Arabic thought, legends of the Kaw Indians and The Last of the Mohicans, although I did only a page on that one. It's great fun and a great group.