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Spanish language audiobooks, free, for personal use only. The text is available also. As mp3s for download, or play online. Says one fan: Alba tiene una voz de angel, es muy facil entenderla.
http://albalearning.com/ALK Libri Some classic, mostly Western European works, read in Italian. You may listen online free (more suitable for broadband). In mp3 or ogg vorbis format.
http://digilander.libero.it/kyme/audiolibri/index.htmAudiobooks for free
Many classics of literature available, in 25 categories (including Adventure, Crime Mystery, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Westerns, Thrillers, Martial Arts, Spy Stories, Historical & Humour). Also a few non-fiction items. All as mp3 files. However only files playing at 8 Kb/sec files are free. Use requires registration, & the supply of some personal information.
www.audiobooksforfree.comNew Audiobooks.net In its free section, this site offers a large number of classics plus a sprinkling of moderns too, such as James Patrick Kelly's Burn, Christiana Ellis's Nina Kimberly the Merciless and Nancy Sinatra narrating Frank Sinatra: an American Legend. Note that files can exceed 200MB in some cases. Site registration (free) is required to access the recordings.
www.audiobooks.net/audiobooks_free.phpNew Audiobooks.org have more than thirty free classic titles by authors such as Jane Austen, L. Frank Baum, James Fennimore Cooper, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Crane, Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gaston Leroux, RL Stevenson, Mark Twain, and others. As mp3 downloads. They also offer deals to purchase more recent titles.
www.audiobooks.org/EJunto
Free history and philosophy audio books, in mp3 format. Broaden your horizons on your iPod or other mp3 player These range from Plato to Karl Marx, with an emphasis on works by or on famous American figures from yesteryear. The site name comes from Benjamin Franklin's literary club, called The Junto.
www.ejunto.org/New Free Classic Audio Books As the name says, these are free audio versions of dozens of classic popular books, including many time-honoured favourites. Most are prepared in both mp3 format and also as m4b audio books (for iTunes and the iPod). Some have human narration, while others are take-it-or-leave-it "advanced text to speech". Enjoy, from:
http://freeclassicaudiobooks.com/Japanese Classical Literature at Bedtime From The Cat and the Mouse to the Pillow Book, Japanese language audiobooks as mp3 files, most with a Creative Commons licence. From a modest and helpful soul. Some have links to the e-text.
http://jclab.wordpress.com/LibriVox
Fiction, non-fiction, poetry & dramatic works are available here as mp3's and ogg vorbis files.* These are free audiobooks from the public domain, and you'll find many of your old favourites here. Volunteers are also welcome to record individual book chapters or whole books. A constantly growing mega-site (Over 3,000 items available at last check).
http://librivox.org/Litterature Audio (French language) More than 440 authors and over 1,200 works represented here in mp3, from the cream of French literature. Some Greek & Latin texts too, and more modern Western classics from Shakespeare to the brothers Grimm, plus more recent items from a range of nations, including one B.Obama's "Discours d’investiture ". C'est magnifique!
www.litteratureaudio.com/New LoudLit.org Classics read by real people. The limited catalogue can be either browsed as one page or viewed by the genres of novels, history, short stories, poetry and children's stories. Presented In two forms - either listen to/download mp3s by chapters, or both listen online and read an accompanying text. The text is Public Domain, and the audio is available under a Creative Commons License.
http://www.loudlit.org/New PennSound Odes, sonnets, verse epics and more, if any kind of rhyme is your thing there's a treasure trove here, namely the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet. There are a huge number of authors represented, and you'll find everything from F. Scott Fitzgerald reading John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale", to Allen Ginsberg emoting "Howl". Poetry paradise for the audio-inclined. As mp3 files.
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/Radio for the Print Handicapped For those in the greater Sydney and Newcastle (NSW, Australia) areas, Radio 2RPH broadcasts books, magazines and newspapers to those who need - or would like - their reading to be spoken aloud. Frequencies are 100.5 FM in Sydney and Newcastle, and 1224 AM in Sydney. A boon for those with impaired vision or physical disabilities, the service is also extremely useful for those learning English, commuters, people working at home and many others. For a programme guide see:
www.2rph.org.auNB: There are similar services in many other Australian towns and cities, broadcasting on the following frequencies: Adelaide 1197 AM; Albury 101.7 FM; Bendigo 88.7 FM; Brisbane 1296 AM; Canberra 1125 AM; Geelong 99.5 FM; Hobart 864 AM; Launceston 106.9 FM; Melbourne 1179 AM; Mildura 107.5 FM; Perth 990 AM; Shepparton 100.1 FM; Warragul 93.5 FM; Warrnambool 94.5 FM.
For a similar service in Connecticut, USA see:
http://crisradio.org/Read Listening (= leerescuchando) Another recent Spanish language site offers many popular classics in audio form, todo en formato mp3 y completamente gratis (all in mp3 format and completely free). Classics, children's classics, poetry, history, unpublished works and more. Unless otherwise specified, the content is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
www.leerescuchando.com/Ulitka A large collection of works by both Russian and European authors, read in Russian. In mp3. http://audiobooks.ulitka.com/
Vorleser Around 550 German language audiobooks in mp3, from around 160 authors. Mostly German and European literature, with text links often included. For download at CD quality. Das ist gut!
www.vorleser.net/
* Ogg Vorbis format files are open source audio of a higher fidelity than mp3.
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