I don’t know how I’d survive my three-hour commute without audiobooks, and now there’s a website that should help tide me over after I get through my current stash. LibriVox offers free audiobooks galore, so chances are you’ll find something you’ve always been meaning to read. All their recordings are of public domain books, so you won’t be able to catch up on the Harry Potter series, but the options are many.
Another caveat is that the recordings are submitted by volunteers, so you’re unlikely to hear award-winning narrators like the ones they use at Recorded Books, but the ones I sampled were decent enough. If you’re new to audiobooks, though, I’d start with the equally free, high quality stuff from your local public library.
[Via Lifehacker]
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well, you won’t always get award winning narration, but sometimes you will. Here are some of my personal faves, but there are many other exceptional readers/works to be found:
http://hughmcguire.net/2007/04.....endations/
Thanks a lot, Hugh. That was my hunch, but I didn’t have time to check more than a couple of the works. Your list is a great help.
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