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Useful websites you've come across

  • 26-05-2010 8:09pm
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    Dionysus
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    I've been looking for audiobooks to download, preferably for free. Never bothered looking for them before now so I could be years behind you all on this one.

    Librivox is superb. It's basically an organisation that asks people to volunteer to read books and then offers all the books for free on their website:

    http://librivox.org/

    If you like reading, they seem to be keen to have as many volunteers as possible so you can put yourself forward. If you just want to download books, fiction and non-fiction, there is a rapidly growing range of books now.

    My first download was War and Peace (it cost @€;100 to buy) and, having downloaded 14 of the 15 'books' it seems 'Book 15' isn't finished yet and the volunteer who was supposed to finish it has been unable to - but is getting there it seems. I found this from the "project thread" where volunteers talk about the specific books they are working on together (http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23038). The annoying thing about Librivox is that each chapter is preceded by a short message saying this audiobook is in the public domain. Minor in the scheme of things, I suppose.

    If you go here you can put in the author or title of any book you'd like to download and see if they have it yet.

    Other websites offering free audiobooks include:

    http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/ (very good)

    http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks

    http://freeclassicaudiobooks.com/

    Anyway, what money-saving/useful/niche-filling websites have you come across that are worth checking out?


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