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Axomamma@billyjoebowers @CindyWeinstein @Daojoan "Edgar Allan Poe’s only complete novel, published in 1838."
#Librivox has it!
HowToPhil (Phillip R)
EndyI've realized that I need to voice this, because the people directly involved aren't really publicizing it. #LibriVox - the public domain #audiobook site - has been inundated with scrapers and bots for several days now.
Apologies for the language, but #fuckai if this is what it's doing now. Anyone who can provide technical help with stemming the flood should reach out to their (small #volunteer ) team. This site is valuable to our culture. Don't let it be destroyed.
David RuffnerI finished Anne of Green Gables recently. I enjoyed it! I was reading other books at the same time, so it took me a while to finish it, but every time I listened to a chapter I liked it. It's funny and touching. I found that listening to a few of Anne's misadventures was a great way to wind down during anxious times. It was like spending time with a "kindred spirit" to borrow one of Anne's favorite phrases.
trainguyrom@neil I recently listened to a couple of H Beam Piper's works on #Librivox which might fit the bill.
I started with The Cosmic Computer, followed by The 4 Day Planet
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20727
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19478
nemo™ 🇺🇦Nikolai Gogols "Die toten Seelen" als kostenloses Hörbuch bei LibriVox! 🎧 Pawel Tschitschikows groteske Idee, mit toten Leibeigenen Geschäfte zu machen, wird in diesem satirischen Meisterwerk entlarvt. Jetzt reinhören: https://librivox.org/die-toten-seelen-by-nikolai-vasilievich-gogol/ #Hörbuch #Gogol #DieTotenSeelen #LibriVox #Kostenlos
@MichaelWhelan woah! Didn't expect to encounter the artist who did the cover of a book a recently read based on the title alone here on Mastadon!
Now I'm kinda mad that the recording I listened to on #LibriVox used a much less compelling cover art than yours
Rohit Farmer, Ph.D.There is so much good available in the public domain. I just found LibriVox, a volunteer-run audiobook project for public domain books. The quality is okay and depends on the volunteer's skills and equipment, but it's free even without making an account.
I use it on my phone and it works well with Android Auto. #audiobooks #reading #literature #AndroidAuto #librivox
Glyn Moody"To make all books in the public domain available, narrated by real people and distributed for free, in audio format on the internet,” #LibriVox brings thousands of texts to modern audiences in audio form" - https://blog.archive.org/2025/03/10/public-domain-spotlight-librivox/ it's amazing, do give it a whirl #PD