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If you’ve been wondering where to get free audiobooks the legal way, then it’s time to check out LibriVox. The audiobooks here are available in mp3 or ogg formats so you could easily download them to your own computer and listen to them. And the nice thing about this is that there’s a collective team of people who volunteer to read these books aloud so that we could enjoy listening to them for free. You might not be getting the latest commercial books in audio format but these books are within the public domain already so that’s still very cool.
LibriVox has the Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg as its partners. Ah yes, Project Gutenberg! I’ve been getting books in text file formats from that site because there are classics that I really just want to read over and over.
What I like about the entries they have about books is that they put other relevant information which links to various sources so that you know if that’s the book you really want to download. For example, I wanted to get a copy of the Daddy Long Legs book from their site so I checked out the LibriVox page on Daddy Long Legs. So yeah. They linked to the Wikipedia page of the author, as well as the novel’s.
Every so often they also update their blog for audiobooks which you might be interested in. And just 3 days ago, they listed a Halloween-themed set of books you might want to listen to in preparation for the occasion. Macbeth and Famous Modern Ghost Stories are included in the list. Too scared to get them? Don’t worry! They’re DRM-free. ; )
So why am I writing about this audiobooks site? Isn’t this blog supposed to be all about Linux? Well, I thought that it’s good to also point out other projects inspired by the Free Software Movement.
