@gutenberg_org @internetarchive 🥥 I did NOT know about the #LibriVox free #audiobook online collection. 🥥

@CommonMugwort oh do I have a treat for you! 100 chapters of excellence! https://librivox.org/the-way-we-live-now-by-anthony-trollope/ I love Debra’s voice and the way she narrates. She makes me think of a favorite aunt reading to me. I’ve probably listened to this audiobook at least ten times, no joke. And Trollope can’t be beat! For a 19th century gentleman, he writes with remarkable sympathy and understanding for women. I love Trollope and this is a HUGE favorite!! #bookstodon #librivox

@secretsloth it absolutely does work! You listening to my voice from the past connects us through time and space 🥰

I was just thinking about that book a few days ago. It’s a good one. If you want even more humor, try Helen’s Babies http://librivox.org/helens-babies-by-john-habberton/ Once you get through the rather tedious intro and finally meet Budge and Toddie, you’re in for a hilarious time 😁 #Audiobooks #LibriVox

@secretsloth @madgeface Oh I want to recommend two of my favorite (not narrated by me) #librivox #audiobooks. I’ve listened to them both countless times:

https://librivox.org/the-way-we-live-now-by-anthony-trollope/ (narrator sounds like a favorite aunt. I LOVE HER. For a Victorian gentleman, Trollope really knows how to write believable, interesting women)

And this book is a gem. We have two versions; I prefer this narrator’s sweet, gentle voice: https://librivox.org/the-enchanted-april-by-elizabeth-von-arnim/ #bookstodon

Finished another for #BlackHistoryMonth .

"The Negro Problem"
by Booker T. Washington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMrU88k3NYo #Book #Audiobook #Librivox #CivilRrights

#NFO The Negro Problem is a collection of seven essays by prominent Black American writers, such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Laurence Dunbar, edited by Booker T. Washington, and published in 1903. It covers law, education, disenfranchisement, and Black Americans' place in American society. Wikipedia
Originally published: 1903

🇦🇺 The Seven Little Australians audiobook has passed 150K downloads on Librivox! 🇦🇺

Wow. I was a significantly younger person then, but I still remember how much fun it was to record a whole book, *by myself*. The sad chapter at the end still gets me, every single time 😢. It must have taken 100 takes to get that one right.

https://librivox.org/seven-little-australians-by-ethel-sybil-turner/

#blind #LibriVox #audiobooks #volunteer #PublicDomain #Australia

🇦🇺 The Seven Little Australians audiobook has passed 150K downloads on Librivox! 🇦🇺

Wow. I was a significantly younger person then, but I still remember how much fun it was to record a whole book, *by myself*. The sad chapter at the end still gets me, every single time 😢. It must have taken 100 takes to get that one right.

https://librivox.org/seven-little-australians-by-ethel-sybil-turner/

#blind #LibriVox #audiobooks #volunteer #PublicDomain

A few days ago I started listening to a #LibriVox recording of #NicholasNickleby. I figure I'll finally get through it by the time spring arrives, if I stick to it through to the end.

@BobStep there are two links at the top of my main page — one goes to my #Librivox recordings and the other to my unofficial, “personal use” recordings 😁 Help yourself to anything that seems interesting!

@Kayray Yay, #Librivox! Thank you for being a reader! Have to go check your blog to see if I have been a listener to any of yours :-)

@bhp every time I sit down to record a chapter for #LibriVox

Seeing someone refer to Mastadon as "Mast" reminded me that I'd been meaning to download the #LibriVox #audiobook edition of "Two Years Before the Mast," which I don't think I have read since eighth or ninth grade ... didn't even think of it when I was writing for a boating magazine for a living and singing sea chanteys at the #GriswoldInn for fun.
Funny how the mind works sometimes...
https://librivox.org/two-years-before-the-mast-by-richard-henry-dana-jr/

RT @librivox@twitter.com

#OnThisDay 1857 was born George Gissing, English novelist. https://librivox.org/author/319 #LibriVox #audiobook

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/librivox/status/1595009207375314944

Browsing a "list your favorite authors for #bookstadon" thread ("chorus"? "arpeggio"?) sent me off looking for #LibriVox references ...

So many parts of my online life that haven't turned up here in the Fediverse ...
Speaking of #utopian #communities, online or otherwise, have you read "Looking Backward: 2000–1887," published 1888 by Edward Bellamy? #EdwardBellamy probably not trending.
But the book's on Librivox. Great to fall asleep to. Links here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Backward

For anyone who loves #AudioBooks (or anyone interested in lending their voice to one), I highly recommend checking out #LibriVox (https://librivox.org/). LibriVox is a project/service that provides free, public domain audiobooks. The books are recorded by #volunteers and made available on the LibriVox website. They have over 17,000 in their catalog so far. Additionally, the Internet Archive ( @internetarchive ) has a collection dedicated to the LibriVox recordings: https://archive.org/details/librivoxaudio

#introduction!

#PDX I make #audiobooks for #LibriVox. Wear a mask and don’t be a racist. #knitting, #reading, #sewing, #FiberArts, curious person. Interested in #history, #MentalHealth, #arts, #archaeology, #anthropology, #linguistics in general and especially the history of English. I speak some #German, am learning #Finnish on #duolingo.

Love #StrictlyComeDancing, #Taskmaster, #GBBO, #TheArchers. Chronically ill with #PAH. Super-introverted but I think people, in general, are wonderful!

And now the Internet Archive, host of #LibriVox’s server, forum, blog, and audiofiles, is here! 👋 @internetarchive

@sawadsworth i discovered E. Nesbit via Edward Eager’s wonderful books, each of them an homage to Nesbit’s magic books. I recorded Railway Children for #LibriVox, having never read it before! Wonderful.

@Jen Yes, I helped to create librivox.org and have recorded hundreds of books for them. I was a super-admin there until ill health forced me to step down, alas. Username kayray, of course! I also have a selection of casual “personal use” audiobooks, mainly children’s literature, at my blog. I too am an absolutely voracious listener, all day and a lot of the night. My #LibbyApp and my #Scribd subscription are my constant companions! (Not many psychological thrillers at #LibriVox 😁)

@scott96 I love Dracula so much, I recorded it for #LibriVox https://librivox.org/dracula-by-bram-stoker-2/ 😍 My dad read it aloud to my sister and me when we were teenagers, so it’s hugely sentimental to me