#librivox — Public Fediverse posts

Die im doppelten Sinne unerhörten Vorschläge zur "Verbesserung der deutschen Sprache" von Mark #Twain
https://projekt-gutenberg.org/authors/mark-twain/books/die-schrecken-der-deutschen-sprache/

Hier auch als #Podcast Hörtext von #librivox

https://dn710101.ca.archive.org/0/items/prosa_sammlung_021_librivox/germancollection021_04_dieschreckensprache_ts_64kb.mp3

#Deutsch
#Deutschesprache
#Deutschlernen

Die im doppelten Sinne unerhörten Vorschläge zur "Verbesserung der deutschen Sprache" von Mark #Twain
https://projekt-gutenberg.org/authors/mark-twain/books/die-schrecken-der-deutschen-sprache/

Hier auch als #Podcast Hörtext von #librivox

https://dn710101.ca.archive.org/0/items/prosa_sammlung_021_librivox/germancollection021_04_dieschreckensprache_ts_64kb.mp3

#Deutsch
#Deutschesprache
#Deutschlernen

Die im doppelten Sinne unerhörten Vorschläge zur "Verbesserung der deutschen Sprache" von Mark #Twain
https://projekt-gutenberg.org/authors/mark-twain/books/die-schrecken-der-deutschen-sprache/

Hier auch als #Podcast Hörtext von #librivox

https://dn710101.ca.archive.org/0/items/prosa_sammlung_021_librivox/germancollection021_04_dieschreckensprache_ts_64kb.mp3

#Deutsch
#Deutschesprache
#Deutschlernen

Die im doppelten Sinne unerhörten Vorschläge zur "Verbesserung der deutschen Sprache" von Mark #Twain
https://projekt-gutenberg.org/authors/mark-twain/books/die-schrecken-der-deutschen-sprache/

Hier auch als #Podcast Hörtext von #librivox

https://dn710101.ca.archive.org/0/items/prosa_sammlung_021_librivox/germancollection021_04_dieschreckensprache_ts_64kb.mp3

#Deutsch
#Deutschesprache
#Deutschlernen

Die im doppelten Sinne unerhörten Vorschläge zur "Verbesserung der deutschen Sprache" von Mark #Twain
https://projekt-gutenberg.org/authors/mark-twain/books/die-schrecken-der-deutschen-sprache/

Hier auch als #Podcast Hörtext von #librivox

https://dn710101.ca.archive.org/0/items/prosa_sammlung_021_librivox/germancollection021_04_dieschreckensprache_ts_64kb.mp3

#Deutsch
#Deutschesprache
#Deutschlernen

@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 !

#Texas banned #Plato in schools, so here are a bunch of Plato as #free #audiobooks from #Librivox

https://librivox.org/author/599?primary_key=599&search_category=author&search_page=1&search_form=get_results&search_order=alpha

The Art Of Worldly Wisdom #librivox #free #audiobook

https://librivox.org/art-of-worldly-wisdom-by-baltasar-gracian/

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 😁

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 😁

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 😁

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 😁

Do the words "Free public domain audiobooks, read by human volunteers from around the world." excite you?

https://librivox.org/

Just turned 20 years old!

#PublicDomain #LibriVox #audiobook #audiobooks

That #CIA book on #sabotage is on #librivox as an #audiobook

https://librivox.org/simple-sabotage-field-manual-by-united-states-office-of-strategic-services/

🍂 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]

#Librivox #PublicDomain

@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

@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

@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

@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

@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

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.

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.

#Lighthouse #RochesterNY #LibriVox #Audiobook

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/

#LibriVox #Audiobooks

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

LibriVox

https://librivox.org/

#HackerNews #LibriVox #Audiobooks #OpenSource #Literature #FreeBooks #AudioStories

@billyjoebowers @CindyWeinstein @Daojoan "Edgar Allan Poe’s only complete novel, published in 1838."

#Librivox has it!

https://librivox.org/narrative-of-arthur-gordon-pym/

@rk #projectGutenberg free #ebook https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8395

and Free #librivox audiobook https://librivox.org/the-gods-of-pegana-by-lord-dunsany/

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.

#LibriVox
#AnneOfGreenGables

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.

#LibriVox
#AnneOfGreenGables

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

"To make all books in the public domain available, narrated by real people and distributed for free, in audio format on the internet,” #LibriVox brings thousands of texts to modern audiences in audio form" - https://blog.archive.org/2025/03/10/public-domain-spotlight-librivox/ it's amazing, do give it a whirl #PD

Librivox.org has free public domain audio books done by volunteers.

It's pretty awesome.

#Books #AudioBooks #Librivox #PublicDomain

@trummerschlunk @falktx @x42 @PrototypeFund This isn't just a great tool for podcasters. Audiobook creators, like the people at #librivox who usually don't have a lot of skills and knowledge about audio editing and mixing could benefit immensely from this. As well as reels and all sorts of content creators. A really great tool indeed!

@PodcastQuoteBot
For example "The Adventures of Tommy Postoffice, the True Story of a Cat" by Gabrielle E. Jackson

Archive https://archive.org/details/adventuresoftomm00jack
Audiobook https://librivox.org/the-adventures-of-tommy-postoffice-by-gabrielle-e-jackson/

#cats #LibriVox

I was watching _Terry Talks Movies_ on #YouTube last night, and he made a passing comment about some old #MovieSerials, including one called _The Mysterious Doctor Satan_, which drew my interest. But given that the hero in that serial is name the Copperhead, the villain's name is just a coincidence, and has nothing to do with the Paul Ernst novellas in _Weird Tales_.

However, searching on #YouTube further, I found that a channel called _HorrorBabble_ has done readings of five of the eight Doctor Satan #pulp thrillers, with them running about 1h15m. I may listen to one the next time I'm chopping vegetables for slow cooker stew.

#Librivox has also done some Paul Ernst stories, but none of the #DoctorSatan ones. I've already read three of the ones Librivox has, and have the other two in the waiting novelette pack.

I was watching _Terry Talks Movies_ on #YouTube last night, and he made a passing comment about some old #MovieSerials, including one called _The Mysterious Doctor Satan_, which drew my interest. But given that the hero in that serial is name the Copperhead, the villain's name is just a coincidence, and has nothing to do with the Paul Ernst novellas in _Weird Tales_.

However, searching on #YouTube further, I found that a channel called _HorrorBabble_ has done readings of five of the eight Doctor Satan #pulp thrillers, with them running about 1h15m. I may listen to one the next time I'm chopping vegetables for slow cooker stew.

#Librivox has also done some Paul Ernst stories, but none of the #DoctorSatan ones. I've already read three of the ones Librivox has, and have the other two in the waiting novelette pack.

I was watching _Terry Talks Movies_ on #YouTube last night, and he made a passing comment about some old #MovieSerials, including one called _The Mysterious Doctor Satan_, which drew my interest. But given that the hero in that serial is name the Copperhead, the villain's name is just a coincidence, and has nothing to do with the Paul Ernst novellas in _Weird Tales_.

However, searching on #YouTube further, I found that a channel called _HorrorBabble_ has done readings of five of the eight Doctor Satan #pulp thrillers, with them running about 1h15m. I may listen to one the next time I'm chopping vegetables for slow cooker stew.

#Librivox has also done some Paul Ernst stories, but none of the #DoctorSatan ones. I've already read three of the ones Librivox has, and have the other two in the waiting novelette pack.

I was watching _Terry Talks Movies_ on #YouTube last night, and he made a passing comment about some old #MovieSerials, including one called _The Mysterious Doctor Satan_, which drew my interest. But given that the hero in that serial is name the Copperhead, the villain's name is just a coincidence, and has nothing to do with the Paul Ernst novellas in _Weird Tales_.

However, searching on #YouTube further, I found that a channel called _HorrorBabble_ has done readings of five of the eight Doctor Satan #pulp thrillers, with them running about 1h15m. I may listen to one the next time I'm chopping vegetables for slow cooker stew.

#Librivox has also done some Paul Ernst stories, but none of the #DoctorSatan ones. I've already read three of the ones Librivox has, and have the other two in the waiting novelette pack.

I was watching _Terry Talks Movies_ on #YouTube last night, and he made a passing comment about some old #MovieSerials, including one called _The Mysterious Doctor Satan_, which drew my interest. But given that the hero in that serial is name the Copperhead, the villain's name is just a coincidence, and has nothing to do with the Paul Ernst novellas in _Weird Tales_.

However, searching on #YouTube further, I found that a channel called _HorrorBabble_ has done readings of five of the eight Doctor Satan #pulp thrillers, with them running about 1h15m. I may listen to one the next time I'm chopping vegetables for slow cooker stew.

#Librivox has also done some Paul Ernst stories, but none of the #DoctorSatan ones. I've already read three of the ones Librivox has, and have the other two in the waiting novelette pack.

@AugierLe42e Peut-être contacter LibriVox, voir s'ils proposent quelque chose. https://librivox.org/
#Librivox #livreAudio

Der #Afrikaner Lukanga Mukara wird von seinem König nach #Deutschland geschickt, um über seine Erfahrungen dort zu berichten. Er beschreibt erstaunliche und ihm #skurril erscheinende #Gewohnheiten und Bräuche, wie runde Metallstücke, seltsame Kleidung, viel unnütze Bewegung und das Verbrennen von Rauch zum Einatmen.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Forschungsreise_des_Afrikaners_Lukanga_Mukara_ins_innerste_Deutschland

#Audiobuch #audiobook #Buch #Literatur #librivox #prosa

https://www.archive.org/download/sammlungprosa_042_1310_librivox/germancollection042_10_forschungsreise8_hok_128kb.mp3