Librivox

[lucretius]

Librivox.org is a public domain audiobook site / project.  Volunteers record themselves reading a variety of (mostly better known / classic) works into mp3 format, so you can download books into your mp3 player and listen.

The quality is dramatically uneven. Some accents make me want to beat someone with a hammer, and the poetry inflection may be

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[pixink]

That sounds awesome. I'd love to volunteer. I've been told a number of time that I should "find a job recording audio books".

[lucretius]

Give it a go. If for nobody else, there are lots of folks with visual impairments out there (and people stranded in traffic during commutes) who need the help. ;)

[pixink]

My grandfather is blind, and has always relied upon The Library of Congress for his reading material. He prefers that to many other sources, because the readers are, according to him, very consistent. He likes their neutrality. Most of the time, when, say, an actor reads for an audio book, he feels they put a bit too much of their personality in to the reading.

[mennybeads]

Hey, this plugging of the community's really working out, huh? 2nd new member today! Thanks for joining. I hope you'll post soon and have fun (I know I can't wait to have, heh. Been a while since I started it). Also, you sound like a nice person. Okay if I friend you, too?

[lucretius]

Feel free!

I'll post sometime soon when I again have some free time. I like the epistolary format, and am sorta interested how it'd turn out.

[lucretius]

There's a niche for it for me. I prefer to listen to a good story than listen to crappy radio announcers--when I can't really be reading (reading prose in a joggling car can give me icepick headaches).