#Librivox

[walkawaytall]

i would love to hear more about your opinions on LM Montgomery's works 👀

Oh, hi! Thanks for dropping me a note. So, I really have only read her Anne books (and, oddly, have yet to read Rilla of Ingleside). I enjoyed them as a preteen, and Anne was one of several fictional redheads that made me want red hair so badly as a kid :D.

I really started to love the books a lot more as an adult. I was working a job that involved a lot of sort of mindless work, which allowed me to listen to audiobooks and podcasts. I got hooked on LibriVox, which is a site that offers free audiobooks of works in the public domain, read by volunteers. I specifically really liked dramatic readings, and thoroughly enjoyed the Anne books that were available via dramatic reading (as well as Little Women and Pride and Prejudice).

I really enjoyed all of the books, but Anne of the Island and Anne's House of Dreams were my favorite. All the girls at Patty's Place in Anne of the Island reminded me a bit of this house I lived in shortly after moving out of my parents' house for good. I lived there with some women I knew through school and church, and we were all varying levels of friends. It was a really sweet, fun time, and I love being reminded of those years.

But, I'm also all for emotional works, and I think that's why I love Anne's House of Dreams best. I really like Anne and Gilbert together, I like the domesticity of them building a life together after they get married in this new place, and I really like all of the new characters as well. Additionally, I like the way the book handled death and tragedy. Anne's proclamation after the loss of Joyce that, "The thought that it may stop hurting sometimes hurts me worse than all else[...]", is something I think anyone who has lost a loved one can relate to. Some of the plot points are a bit more fantastical than the other books, but I still really enjoy it. I like when things work out in the end, even if there is a great deal of heartbreak in the midst of a story, and I think Anne's House of Dreams does just that.

Oh, and since it's on topic, I thought I might share this YouTube channel that I really enjoyed back when they were actively posting videos. Green Gables Fables is a modern take on some of the Anne books, told via vlog, similar to The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (though, GGF was done by a bunch of students -- it is admittedly much lower-budget and less-polished than LBD, but I still think it's great). I highly suggest watching using the playlists for Season One and Season Two, as these contain vlogs by characters other than Anne that help fill out the story and that are easy to miss if you're not aware of all the characters' account names. If you want to like...grow attached to Ruby Gillis, this may be the series for you!

If you're interested in the LibriVox dramatic readings I mentioned, they are here (I usually used the iTunes subscription option, I think, since I was always taught not to just download random files from websites. Haha...But I also have no idea if that still even works.):

Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Avonlea

Anne of the Island

Anne's House of Dreams

The quality of reading varies because these are volunteers, but I really like Arielle Lipshaw, who acts as both narrator and the voice of Anne, so I found them really fun and engaging.

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

I love you PBS I love you NPR I love you public libraries I love you wikipedia I love you project gutenberg I love you librivox I love you libby I love you hoopla I love you openlibrary I love you internet archive I love you resources that make information free and accessible to the public

[player-1]

Just making a separate post on the Limbus Library for now, though looking through Project Gutenberg and LibriVox is pretty great too. So here's a full list in the order of the Cantos :)

-Metamorphosis (Book & Audiobook)

-Crime and Punishment (Book & Audiobook)

-Demian (Book & Audiobook)

-The Wings (Book & Audiobook)

-Moby Dick (Book & Audiobook)

-Wuthering Heights (Book & Audiobook)

-Don Quixote (Book & Audiobook)

-Dream of the Red Chamber (Book & Audiobook (& bonus drama series))

-Hell Screen (Book & Audiobook)

-The Stranger (Book & Audiobook)

-The Odyssey (Book & Audiobook)

-Faust (Goethe and Marlowe books & Audiobooks 1 and 2)

[karizard-ao3]

I was thinking, "Oh, I'm having such a hard time getting through Les Mis, maybe I'll go back to the audiobook instead of reading it with my eyes", only to remember that my library's copy DOESN'T HAVE CHAPTER MARKERS. It doesn't even break it up by volume! It's all random! And the Librivox recording is fine, just a little annoying because I had to download it all as individual chapters and so every five minutes or so I have to pull up the next chapter, adjust the speed because they all read like turtles, and then skip through the introduction. And sometimes that alone is enough to make me stop listening for the day.

"Fine!" I thought. "I guess I'll just see about buying it!"

The cheapest audiobook is AI narrated, and the next cheapest one is $8, which is like... Not bad, but how much more money am I going to spend trying to find a way to finish this damn book before the year runs out? I haven't been able to find any bootleg copies.

I'm in hell.

Edit: I think I can use the VLC app to stream the Librivox version without having to adjust the playback speed every time it switches to the next chapter. Wish me luck

[rjalker]

Wow, hey did you know the invisible man from H.G. Wells' book of the same name is albino? That's literally the key to him becoming invisible, because the thing that lets you become invisible doesn't affect pigments, but his skin already does not have any pigmentation, so he wouldn't have been able to make himself invisible if he weren't already albino.

listen here on the internet archive to a free audiobook version

or from project gutenberg

[buffdyke]

hey you! do you like free public domain audiobooks? of course you do!

let me introduce you to librivox! this site is dedicated to providing free volunteer read audiobooks! they currently have 19,610 free public domain works recorded and they are always adding more as people volunteer

long post short, please go help yourself to some great classic audiobooks!

[silwer999]

Listening to free audiobooks will have you saying stuff like mb is my favourite Shakespearean actor

[stringcage]

I LOVE YOU LIBRIVOX RECORDINGS

[arconinternet]

David and the Phoenix (Book, Edward Ormondroyd, 1957)

You can digitally borrow it - and also find a Project Gutenberg edition and a LibriVox audiobook - here. You can also find the latter two versions here and here.

[ebrithilbowser-blog]

Not exactly what I tried to find but thanks anyway

[immawraffle]

Getting into the original Sherlock Holmes through the librivox podcast on Spotify.

Love that Sherlock introduced his brother with the phrase: “The Diogenes club is the queerest club in London, and Mycroft one of the queerest men.”

[marinaslibrary]

Librivox app my beloved<3 genuinely recommend downloading that app so much, you get access to thousands popular and obscure classics alike, and listening to audiobooks (that you can download!) is so convenient when you have errants to run! Its obviously completely free too! I've been devouring a study in scarlet and some poems because of it this past week :)

[suede-moon]

Me starting to read a book out loud to my girlfriend:

"This is a Librivox recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domaine. For more information or to volunteer please visit Librivox dot org"

[st-george-and-the-dragon]

Listening to the Brothers Karamasov audiobook via Librivox which is a cool thing where volunteers make public domain recordings of public domain books but nothing could have prepared me for the pleasant, soothing narrator woman getting replaced with a Dutch man for precisely (1) random chapter.

[saffity]

One thing that has become (once again) a big part of my life, is recording and assisting with LibriVox.org

This is a website where you can find free audiobooks, read by volunteers, of any public domain work.

It's something I started in 2008 in College, and then did another stint from 2015-2017 before a personal loss, and then new motherhood, had me take a hiatus.

I started up again this summer, reading a bit, but then realizing that with my two kids, I don't have the time available with silence to record and edit things, however I can coordinate and proof listen.

So I've been doing a bunch of behind the scenes stuff for the last few months.

My proudest new project is the Community Podcast. It used to be a weekly, then monthly, then whenever thing. The last post being in 2020. I decided that since no one else had the bandwidth to make more, I'd get a simple update and highlight kind of deal going monthly, just to give everyone another place to grow the community.

I'm just about to release the second one this Friday, and I'm so thrilled to have gotten back into it.

If you think any of this sounds fun, please check out the website and forum. We love new volunteers and it's one of the healthiest communities I've been a part of.

[hcneypuff]

Okay so like I’m not sure if anyone else has ever listened the librivox version 2 (the dramatic reading) version of the marvelous land of oz (second book in the oz series) but like it’s one where each character as a different voice and stuff, right, and omg for the scarecrow he sounds like a posh gay English / French man (it’s hard to tell which one the accent sound more like) and it just cracks me up because he keeps talking about his friend the tin man and how he will protect him and stuff and his voice is just making everything he say so much more gay! Like they said he was a queer king and I’m like damn right he is! This is probably a very niche post but if you have listened to it, or are inspired to now, or honestly if you just are a wizard of oz nerd, feel free to reach out or comment or something because man I have so many thoughts!!

Link to the audio book if anyone’s interested! It’s free!

L. Frank Baum: The Marvelous Land of Oz (version 2) (Dramatic Reading) https://librivox.app/book/2785