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What an interesting site, and an interesting trail! Marje's comments
A wonderful and ever-growing selection of all sorts of fiction and nonfiction, including short stories, speeches, essays and poetry. The stated goal of Librivox is “to make all public domain books available as free audio books.” You can find everything from the Gettysburg Address to Robinson Crusoe to The Wizard of Oz to Pride and Prejudice to The Communist Manifesto.If you'd like to volunteer to either read or proofread, the site provides a simple system that makes it easy to participate.
LibriVox describes its mission to be the “acoustical liberation of books in the public domain.” It is a digital library of free public domain audio books that are read and recorded by volunteers. It was started in August 2005, and already has amassed over 730 recordings. Most of the recordings are in English but there are also recordings available in German, Spanish, Chinese, Russian and Japanese as well as other languages. This link http://creativecommons.org/text/librivox tells you more about LibriVox.
Librivox has become the most prolific audiobook publisher in the world, with over 1000 full-length audio books, producing 60-70 books per month. About 1,500 volunteers from around the world have contributed audio recordings to this worthy project.
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Posted at 15:02 on 2007-04-02 by
Jackie
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Great trail. I'll be following it on a regular basis.
Posted at 14:58 on 2007-04-14 by
dreamshaper
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