LibriVox

I just wanted to shout out to all of the mounds of readers of this blog a cool site that I've known about for a while but never really put to good use until now.

As you know, any book published before January 1st, 1923, is in the public domain and as such is fully available to all derivative works. LibriVox is a project that pulls public domain books off of a project like Project Gutenberg and makes them available to the public as audio books. Readers are volunteers recording at their home computer. The files are then uploaded and reviewed by other volunteers and then the whole project is released. I especially like the feature where you can download the book in iTunes. It opens it as a podcast and you can selectively get chapters or download the whole thing. Very handy and useful.

For those of you who aren't interested in the details, here's the gist:
Free Audiobooks!

Right now I'm listening to Jane Eyre for AP English. I can listen to it when it's dark or when I'm moving or even when I'm cooking, which is something that I have never been able to (safely) do when reading a book the standard way. Not to say I haven't done it, but it was before President Hinckley warned against gambling. I was gambling when I did it. And now I'm rambling. Good night!