#librivox

[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

[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

[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.”

[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.

[jmtorres]

so i was poking around on librivox (free audiobooks of works out of copyright) and because it's volunteer recording not all of it is at the quality of professional audiobooks and podcasts i've been listening too, and i found out i'm a bit of a snob

but i listened to Destiny Times Three by Fritz Leiber, read by Ben Tucker, a novel from 1945 I might never have otherwise run across. It reminded me of the tv show Fringe, made me wonder anyone on writing staff had read it. It deals with deliberately branched timelines and what happens when you try to prune the tree.

And, I think, in part, it may have been written in the fantasy that the world of 1945 was a "botched" world, a world forced by some outsider experimenter to go down a dark path, that the human instinct was to be smarter and kinder than that. And I can empathize. I feel a little like we're in a botched world now. But I also found the ending resonant, that you can't toss out all but the perfect possible world, that every flawed world that exists, deserves the chance to solve its problems.

[khayjayart]

New video of "art and storytime" is up with chapter 6 of Spacehounds of IPC! If you want to support my art, you can buy some of my work from Gumroad: www.gumroad.com/khadijahjohnson or leave a tip through Paypal: paypal.me/Khadi990.

[spydre]

My newest audiobook narration just dropped at Librivox! 

[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

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

has anyone ever done any librivox recordings and do you know what i have to do to do one

[thecringefailintherye]

hot girls be like “this is a librivox recording, all librivox recordings are in the public domain, for more information visit librivox.org”

[roseunspindle]

What I Read in October 2023

I've tried reading this a few times and have never been in the mood, then boom, this time I loved it! ^_^' (because I needed another fandom and another super long manga series...)

This was an interesting start, I look forward to the next volume!

I'm fine and don't find these volumes to be stressfull at all.

Listened to this after finding out about needing a root canal. This might be my favorite Jane Austen

And I finished (finally) Deadhouse Gates! That was a journey, I was emotionally exhausted by the end. I must say this was a much stronger book than Garden's of the Moon

the Kaiba brothers and immediately going for "murder" as the answer

Really liking this still

after deadhouse gates I decided to give my poor brain and heart a break and read some (very) small books. ^_^

Attempting to use the word "fag" as many times as possible in a not-gay way. Also Vincent Phantomhive sighting, Ciel getting a random marriage proposal, Lizzy and Edward being jealous for different reasons.

hey, part of the star wars universe actually looking at slavery...

This is such a good series

not sure what story precisely this was attempting to tell tbh

this one gets into some of the mor emotional things, but also keeps lots of fun shenanigans going on.

Took more care reading this volume this time and had a lot more fun.

Another de-stress listening choice

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Librivox is my favorite thing in the wolrd. Free Audiobooks? Popularizing public domain books? Amazing.

[microcosme11]

I just listened to the Librivox audiobook of Uncle Bernac in the car and enjoyed it very much. It’s not a long book.One of the characters is Lieutenant Gerard, about whom Conan Doyle developed a series of stories that I haven’t read. Another character is the Emperor Napoleon who is really wonderful. There’s a hilarious scene at Josephine’s salon where Napoleon shows up and insults people right and left. He has a great exit line in that scene.

Link to an illustrated version of the book on archive

[arctic-hands]

Hmm, what's a PD audiobook I can download as an MP3 to see if it's just an audible .aax problem or if the only flaw in my lil MP3 player is that it actually sucks for audiobooks unlike the way it was advertised

[fbfh]

About to start chapter 6 of war and peace. Pierre is my Mr. Darcy.

[khayjayart]

Art and Storytime!!

Welcome to my new Youtube series, "Art and Storytime", where I play some of my favorite audiobooks while drawing. I like to listen to audiobooks and YT videos while drawing and there's already plenty of art channels that do commentary + drawing, so I decided I would do something where I play audiobooks over recordings of me drawing.

The audiobook I will be using for the first part of this series is "Spacehounds of IPC" by EE Doc Smith and narrated by Mark Nelson. This science fiction novel is in the public domain in the US, so I don't have to worry about copyright strikes (hopefully lol). The video for the first chapter of "Spacehounds" is already up on my Youtube channel. Please like and subscribe so I can keep making stuff like this.