Showing posts with label Librivox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Librivox. Show all posts

Saturday, 19 May 2007

Librivox- acoustical liberation of books in the Public Domain

http://librivox.org/
Librivox is a volunteer run audiobook site which encourages people from all over the world to read section of public domain books which then get put up on the website. You can access the files either as a podcast, through bitorrent, a .zip file or downloaded as either an mp3 or Ogg Vorbis file in approx 15 min chapters. You may find that each segment is read by a different voice, and the narrator can vary sex within the same book.
http://librivox.org/pride-and-prejudice-by-jane-austen/ the page for downloading Pride and Prejudice.


http://librivox.org/about-librivox/ lots of information here

This site also has a forum that allows you you get involved http://librivox.org/forum/

Free Classic Audio Books

http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/
This site has Librivox human narrated books and computer narrated books.
The books are available in MP3 or m4b (for iPod and iTunes) format, again the books are divided into segments of aprox 15 minutes, but you can also choose to download the book as a zip file.
As the human narrated books are done by Librivox there is more than one narrator.