#librivox — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #librivox, aggregated by home.social.
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🚤🌊 Nancy Drew's lakeside adventure takes a dangerous turn in this clip from a LibriVox reading of the 1930 public domain classic, THE BUNGALOW MYSTERY. 🔍
📚It's just one of tens of thousands of free public domain audiobooks in the LibriVox Audio Collection on the Internet Archive. From mysteries and adventures to poetry, history, science fiction, and children's classics, there's always something new to hear. 🎧
Find your next audio adventure 👇
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The #LibriVox 21st Anniversary Collection is here! Short selections celebrating the 21st year of public domain audiobooks, with a variety of titles containing the number 21!
https://librivox.org/librivox-21st-anniversary-collection-by-various/
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Newest additions too my MP3 player: Books of Blood by Clive Barker, Skeleton Crew by Stephen King, Blackwater Saga by Michael McDowell, and Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman. Also a couple old issues of the literary magazine Mother Earth for turn of the century short stories and poems. I love the weird stuff you can find on #librivox
#audiobooks #books #bookstodon #reading #horror #horrorbooks
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🎧📜 The Internet Archive is home to millions of free audiobooks and audio recordings, including this LibriVox reading of the Declaration of Independence, bringing one of America's founding documents to life.
We're highlighting documents, recordings, and artifacts that tell the story of America's founding and the anniversaries that followed.
Learn more 👇
https://blog.archive.org/2026/06/29/the-declaration-of-independence-america-at-250-and-past-centennials/ -
@leapingwoman
Then there are the LibriVox "Insomnia Collections", readings deliberately selected to be as boring as possible. Can't beat a pamphlet on Copyright Law, or a dissertation on Yeast, or the history of Umbrellas, for putting one to sleep! (I was an occasional contributor, droning my way through the Rules of the Road at Sea in Collection #4).https://librivox.org/search?q=insomnia%20collection&search_form=advanced
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Die im doppelten Sinne unerhörten Vorschläge zur "Verbesserung der deutschen Sprache" von Mark #Twain
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@RVLara23 @Daojoan if I can "read" a book while biking or driving a car (safely), talking a walk or doing chores - that's a superpower. Even if my comprehension isn't as good, that's still way better than not engaging with a book at all!
Sometimes I use text to speech to read me articles or papers or other written media I am researching (or just enjoying casually). And some audiobooks are just incredible works of art, bringing my beloved books to life in a very new way.Shoutout to #LibriVox !
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#Texas banned #Plato in schools, so here are a bunch of Plato as #free #audiobooks from #Librivox
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I'm always late to the party so happy new year everyone! ⭐️
Saw an incredible drawing by #HenryWestonKeen on #Wikicommons and decided to make a (very sketchy and messy) reproduction with #Inkscape for my first #LibriVox cover of the year. Hope it's not a bad omen 😁
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Do the words "Free public domain audiobooks, read by human volunteers from around the world." excite you?
Just turned 20 years old!
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🍂 As spooky season settles & autumn’s shadows grow long, we return to an American classic: THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW. Washington Irving’s tale is a haunting blend of fall’s golden calm & the thrill of horror come to life. 👻🪦
🔊 Make sure sound is on for the full effect!More vintage frights in our #SpookySeason collection ⬇️
https://archive.org/details/@sterling_dudley/lists/1/spooky-season-2025[https://archive.org/details/@sterling_dudley/lists/1/spooky-season-2025] -
@lmemsm I'm not sure if this fits, but there are plenty of #Gothic or #Horror public domain #books easily available on @gutenberg_org, some of them also at #LibriVox!
Here are some:
Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, M. R. James
Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 1, Charles Robert Maturin
The Call of Cthulhu, H. P. Lovecraft
The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole
The Colour Out of Space, H. P. Lovecraft
The Dunwich Horror, H. P. Lovecraft
The Great God Pan, Arthur Machen
The Island of Doctor Moreau, H. G. Wells
The King in Yellow, Robert W. Chambers
The Monk: A Romance, M. G. Lewis
The Monkey’s Paw, W. W. Jacobs
The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe
The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
The Vampyre; a Tale, John William Polidori
The Willows, Algernon Blackwood
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë#bookstodon #Halloween #PublicDomain
Credits for the list go to #ProjectoAdamastor
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It's been a while since I shared my last #librivox #audiobook cover so here it goes.
Don't forget you can check the ongoing series (as well as download the #publicdomain files made with #inkscape) both on #patreon and the #internetarchive.
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It has come to my attention that today is National Lighthouse Day. This calls for a bit of celebration!
One of my LibriVox audiobook projects was recording "Instructions to Light Keepers", an instruction manual for lighthouse staff written in 1881. With this little booklet in hand, a keeper could learn how to do anything, from keeping the lights burning to keeping the supply inventory in order.
Some sections are admittedly a bit dry and technical. If you want a good picture of the general duties of a light keeper's day, without getting too deeply into the details, try Section 1 "General Instructions to Light Keepers" and Section 4 "Instructions to Keepers of Light Ships". That's just a half-hour of the most interesting material.
Here's a link to the audiobook -
https://librivox.org/instructions-to-light-keepers-by-uslb/
The cover photo shows our local Rochester NY lighthouse. It is no longer an active light, but has undergone restoration, and is open to the public on weekends.
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The LibriVox 20th Anniversary Collection is here!
Each year, LibriVox public domain audiobooks celebrates its anniversary in August, by publishing a collection of short works, (stories, poems, and nonfiction). Every item in the collection must contain the number of the anniversary year somewhere in its title. This year, the magic number is Twenty!
I have contributed to past anniversary collections, but this year I've been so "out of it" that I missed the whole thing. But I'm still going to enjoy listening to the other contributions. If you would also like to sample the collection, here is the link -
https://librivox.org/librivox-20th-anniversary-collection-by-various/
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Off to listen to "Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisure", a #LibriVox #Audiobook of some (?) 15 #ChineseGhostStories.
My mild suspicion is that the Lodge of Leisure is an opium den.
I could claim that I'm doing background reading for the #JudgeDee stories. But I'm not really.
Becoming clear that one possibility for #WhatHappensAfterYouDie is that ghost stories can get made up about you. Beautiful young women seem especially prone to this fate.
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I finished Anne of Green Gables recently. I enjoyed it! I was reading other books at the same time, so it took me a while to finish it, but every time I listened to a chapter I liked it. It's funny and touching. I found that listening to a few of Anne's misadventures was a great way to wind down during anxious times. It was like spending time with a "kindred spirit" to borrow one of Anne's favorite phrases.
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Nikolai Gogols "Die toten Seelen" als kostenloses Hörbuch bei LibriVox! 🎧 Pawel Tschitschikows groteske Idee, mit toten Leibeigenen Geschäfte zu machen, wird in diesem satirischen Meisterwerk entlarvt. Jetzt reinhören: https://librivox.org/die-toten-seelen-by-nikolai-vasilievich-gogol/ #Hörbuch #Gogol #DieTotenSeelen #LibriVox #Kostenlos
