Librivox is what got me into reading at all. They have a lot of great classics which serve as a great gateway. The Idiot by Martin Geeson is phenominaly read.
Same man. They're what made me finally like books. Before I found them I simply couldn't enjoy books. Now I finish more books in a month than anyone I know does in a year
No, but I understand the value of the site and its volunteer community. Most books will simply never get the commercial audiobook treatment, and there are people who cannot read for whatever reason.
All these readers are good although most of them didn't make that many recordings. Amy Gramour's "The Wendigo" and Bruce Prire's "The Brothers Karamazov" are some standouts.
I used to listen to it a lot when I had a bullshit work-from-home job. Most of the readers are awful, though. These are some of the few I found where the reader seemed both competent and well-suited to the text:
>The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson (in a perfect world this reader would be Scottish, but he captures every nuance of the text admirably)
>The Rainbow - DH Lawrence (a Midlands accent, just as Lawrence would've had, and a Lawrentian earnestness in his voice)
>The Warden - Anthony Trollope (very low-energy reader, but it's perfect for a book about ecclesiastical politics in a quiet English cathedral town)
>Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne (the guy sounds like he was literally transported straight out of 19th-century America)
i use a tts program that reads pirated epubs out loud and i listen tho that instead
librivox is a great idea but their books dont interest me and i dont wanna fill my disk space with hours long audio files
most libraries that are near me don't have many english language books. also I like listening to audiobooks while I'm doing homework, making food, or just when I'm really tired and sitting in bed
I just started downloading their files and adding music of classical recordings and instrumental beats/electronic/ambient type music in the background. And I still have to get better at it cause coincidentally I just started this morning but if there’s interest and I get some good examples I’ll post em. Right now I’m putting together an Anna karenina one with Macroblank in the background.
Basically I took the separate chapter recordings and put em all together (cause individually they were only a few minutes long) and added this:
?si=2dO0Cb9iujk5HRPS
I gotta get better at it but I’ll upload some successful examples when I get them. Luckily the recordings are all public domain and the music is “plunderphonics” so has to be listed as free anyways.
I tried it for a bit. The quality was generally fairly low, but for free shit people do in their spare time, I don't see complaining too much about it.
I found some podcast that curates well done audiobooks from LibriVox, they are decent. Started listening to To The Lighthouse yesterday; the girl reading it reads well and has a pleasant voice but she never changes affect with perspective which makes it difficult to follow, would be very difficult to keep track of things if I had not already read it it and even then it is not easy.
Awful OP but I use it for Bernard Shaw's plays
What should have I said instead ?
Get a library card and use Libby.
Not really because they're only for non-copyrighted books
Librivox is what got me into reading at all. They have a lot of great classics which serve as a great gateway. The Idiot by Martin Geeson is phenominaly read.
Same man. They're what made me finally like books. Before I found them I simply couldn't enjoy books. Now I finish more books in a month than anyone I know does in a year
No, but I understand the value of the site and its volunteer community. Most books will simply never get the commercial audiobook treatment, and there are people who cannot read for whatever reason.
recommend your favorite librivox recordings plese
The bourgeois gentleman, The misanthrope, and Julius Caesar .
All these readers are good although most of them didn't make that many recordings. Amy Gramour's "The Wendigo" and Bruce Prire's "The Brothers Karamazov" are some standouts.
thanks for the recommendations. I can vouch for Mark Nelson as well. I listened to his Notredam-de-Paris.
Hegel's the phenomenology of mind, Maurice sections
Yeah. I just finished listening to the Merchant of Venice and The israelite of Malta audiobooks.
I used to listen to it a lot when I had a bullshit work-from-home job. Most of the readers are awful, though. These are some of the few I found where the reader seemed both competent and well-suited to the text:
>The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson (in a perfect world this reader would be Scottish, but he captures every nuance of the text admirably)
>The Rainbow - DH Lawrence (a Midlands accent, just as Lawrence would've had, and a Lawrentian earnestness in his voice)
>The Warden - Anthony Trollope (very low-energy reader, but it's perfect for a book about ecclesiastical politics in a quiet English cathedral town)
>Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne (the guy sounds like he was literally transported straight out of 19th-century America)
i use a tts program that reads pirated epubs out loud and i listen tho that instead
librivox is a great idea but their books dont interest me and i dont wanna fill my disk space with hours long audio files
what tts program is it good sir
they have a youtube channel
most libraries that are near me don't have many english language books. also I like listening to audiobooks while I'm doing homework, making food, or just when I'm really tired and sitting in bed
post the funniest vox
I just started downloading their files and adding music of classical recordings and instrumental beats/electronic/ambient type music in the background. And I still have to get better at it cause coincidentally I just started this morning but if there’s interest and I get some good examples I’ll post em. Right now I’m putting together an Anna karenina one with Macroblank in the background.
Basically I took the separate chapter recordings and put em all together (cause individually they were only a few minutes long) and added this:
?si=2dO0Cb9iujk5HRPS
I gotta get better at it but I’ll upload some successful examples when I get them. Luckily the recordings are all public domain and the music is “plunderphonics” so has to be listed as free anyways.
>Macroblank
Frickin based. i'd love that. Are you going to upload the whole book in full? And could I make bg music recommendations?
I use audiobookbay.is
I tried it for a bit. The quality was generally fairly low, but for free shit people do in their spare time, I don't see complaining too much about it.
I ended up just getting an audible subscription.
I listened to In The Maine Woods while hiking in the Maine woods. Was fun to recognize all the rivers and mountains. The narrator had a flinty accent.
I found some podcast that curates well done audiobooks from LibriVox, they are decent. Started listening to To The Lighthouse yesterday; the girl reading it reads well and has a pleasant voice but she never changes affect with perspective which makes it difficult to follow, would be very difficult to keep track of things if I had not already read it it and even then it is not easy.