LibriVox
LibriVox: free audiobooks
About LibriVox: LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting?
LibriVox wants all books in the public domain to be available, for free, in audio format, on the internet. We ask volunteers to record chapters of books in the public domain in digital format; all you need is a computer, some free recording software, and your own voice! We are a totally volunteer, open source , free content, public domain project.
Once we get the files, we catalog them , and podcast the books, one at a time. Lend your voice to a good cause.
We get most of our texts from Project Gutenberg , and the Internet Archive hosts our audio files.
For the moment we don’t need any money, we’ll let you know if that changes!
Now this may not sound extremly exciting to some, but for my grandmother, it is a blessing. She went blind several years ago and she does not have the ability to read braile. She, as well as my wife and I, are part of a The National Federation of the Blind: Murray Chapter. Of course the budget for its members is barely enough to send a few of them to Frankfort, Ky twice a year and host an annual Christmas Party. As you can imagine, free audio books are a blessing. I can download these, chapter by chapter, and burn them to Cds for her enjoyment. I have already sent a letter to Hugh McGuire generously thanking him for personally placing a smile on my grandmother's face. His blog is called Dose Magazine.
About LibriVox: LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting?
LibriVox wants all books in the public domain to be available, for free, in audio format, on the internet. We ask volunteers to record chapters of books in the public domain in digital format; all you need is a computer, some free recording software, and your own voice! We are a totally volunteer, open source , free content, public domain project.
Once we get the files, we catalog them , and podcast the books, one at a time. Lend your voice to a good cause.
We get most of our texts from Project Gutenberg , and the Internet Archive hosts our audio files.
For the moment we don’t need any money, we’ll let you know if that changes!
Now this may not sound extremly exciting to some, but for my grandmother, it is a blessing. She went blind several years ago and she does not have the ability to read braile. She, as well as my wife and I, are part of a The National Federation of the Blind: Murray Chapter. Of course the budget for its members is barely enough to send a few of them to Frankfort, Ky twice a year and host an annual Christmas Party. As you can imagine, free audio books are a blessing. I can download these, chapter by chapter, and burn them to Cds for her enjoyment. I have already sent a letter to Hugh McGuire generously thanking him for personally placing a smile on my grandmother's face. His blog is called Dose Magazine.
posted by Wall Appeals at 16.12.05
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