I’ve just discovered an internet resource with free mp3 recordings of public domain books, including the Bible, Augustine, and heaps of others: You can even do your own recordings, in any language, and post them for people to download. I’m toying with the idea of doing my own expressive reading of 1 Corinthians from the Westcott & Hort Greek New Testament… Prepare to feel outrage, despair, hope, and joy, as you listen in on a conversation in Corinth.
But first, I’m planning to download Augustine’s Enchiridion and listen to it on my iPod.
The site is http://librivox.org/ and it looks quite promising. Let me put in a plug for recording stuff: I have recorded a few things onto tape (the OT, some of the City of God, about half of Calvin’s Institutes), and I’ve found it a good way to impose some order and regularity into my reading – you can’t skip bits when it’s being recorded. So if you’re thinking of reading something that’s out of copyright, why not record it, both for your benefit and for mine?
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on a similar note… today i found: http://www.archive.org/index.php – they have free concerts recorded…
as well as other books and even some books on tape or audio books or whatev.
hey cool – good stuff! So many freebies, so little time