I recently attended the technology conference in Maine (ACTEM) and went to a really great session given by Jim Moulton called “Jim’s Best of the Web“. He mentioned a site that contains two words I absolutely love….free, and audiobooks.
The site is Librevox.org and it is a volunteer effort to create audiobooks of every work that exists in the public domain. When you click on a book, the reader tells you their name, where they live, and the date they did the recording. I could see this as being a great opportunity for students to practice their oral reading skills by participating as well.
Of course, being an English Major, I was especially pleased to see a few of my favorites:
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Various William Blake Poems
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Well, I guess I know what I’ll be doing this weekend! I can’t believe I paid 14 bucks through Audible for some of these!
