Dear wondrous members o' yea olde Free Culture, So I was clicking around in the Libre project's list o' things<http://libreprojects.net/>, and found the Gutenberg E-book <http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page> (I call them Fre-ebooks and suggest you do too) project is also in association with LibriVox <http://librivox.org/about-librivox/>. Librivox, as the link says, attempts to make written material available in Audio format under a Creative Commons un-license (more fun terminology, I've been reading too much Orwell).
>From what I understand these two organizations have an iPhone app that I was introduced to (it's called Gutenberg), and blatantly the voices are pretty terrible; four books were read by a child (as sweet as it sounds it really detracts from the story when the reader asks how to say a word) and a number of them by this (albeit awesome) very Texan sounding man. The reason I am telling you all about this may already be obvious, we should all totally volunteer to read some books<http://librivox.org/volunteer-for-librivox/>, or tell our friends that are good at doing different voices and reading out loud that they could do this. ("Hey [awesome friend], have you heard of this? Well you should, because you could rock this and be an even awesomer person because of it!") Well, that's all I have to say really. I hope you all have good days/nights/weekends. I'm off to read some books out loud. -- *Respectfully, * * * *Clarissa Alaric Moore* *Chemistry and Biochemistry* *University of Oklahoma*
_______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
