Corlindale
2010-01-29, 05:13 PM
Does anyone here know about this (http://librivox.org/) quite interesting site?
Basically it's a collection of free audiobook versions of classic works with expired copyright. The books are all read by various volunteers.
I love the idea of this site, and it has a quite impressive collection of works registered. The only real problem lies in the sometimes varying quality of the amateur-reading, though most of what I've heard has been decent and only rarely have I encountered excruciatingly bad.
For those who do already use the site, this topic could be used for recommending various book readings worth checking out on the site.
I haven't actually listened to that much yet, though I quite liked one of the versions of Jane Eyre (http://librivox.org/jane-eyre-version-3-by-charlotte-bronte/). I didn't get all the way through it, though, it is rather long.
The Importance of Being Earnest (http://librivox.org/the-importance-of-being-earnest-version-2-by-oscar-wilde/) was quite entertaining as well, and much easier to get through totalling less than 2 hours - though a few of the readers had some slight problems with exaggerated accents and overacting.
Anyone got any good recommendations? Perhaps just of classic works worth checking out, irrespective of whether you've heard them on the site? (I'll be going for a long walk tomorrow, and I could use something interesting to put on my mp3-player.)
Basically it's a collection of free audiobook versions of classic works with expired copyright. The books are all read by various volunteers.
I love the idea of this site, and it has a quite impressive collection of works registered. The only real problem lies in the sometimes varying quality of the amateur-reading, though most of what I've heard has been decent and only rarely have I encountered excruciatingly bad.
For those who do already use the site, this topic could be used for recommending various book readings worth checking out on the site.
I haven't actually listened to that much yet, though I quite liked one of the versions of Jane Eyre (http://librivox.org/jane-eyre-version-3-by-charlotte-bronte/). I didn't get all the way through it, though, it is rather long.
The Importance of Being Earnest (http://librivox.org/the-importance-of-being-earnest-version-2-by-oscar-wilde/) was quite entertaining as well, and much easier to get through totalling less than 2 hours - though a few of the readers had some slight problems with exaggerated accents and overacting.
Anyone got any good recommendations? Perhaps just of classic works worth checking out, irrespective of whether you've heard them on the site? (I'll be going for a long walk tomorrow, and I could use something interesting to put on my mp3-player.)