LibriVox

LibriVox is a cool place for the free audio books. Librivox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then they release the audio files back onto the net (through a podcast, catalog, and bit torrents). LibriVox is a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.

Here’s how it works (generally):

1. LibriVox volunteers suggest books from the public domain, and if there is volunteer interest
2. A Book Coordinator (any volunteer willing to do the job) will post the book in the Readers Wanteds section of the forum
3. Volunteers “claim” chapters, and record them to mp3.
4. Volunteers send the files to the Book Coordinator (often using yousendit.com)
5. The Book Coordinator sends the completed Book to a Meta Coordinator
6. The Meta Coordinator posts the book to the Listeners Wanted section of the forum, for Proof-Listening
7. The complete, Proof-Listened book is then uploaded to the server space (either Internet Archive or iBiblio), and cataloged
8. The files are available to anyone to use, from catalog, and they podcast books one at a time.
   

So, practically:

• if you would like to help, check the LibriVox Volunteer page, or go straight to the forum.
• if you would like to subscribe to the podcast, please:
  a) in iTunes, click here: iTunes 1-click, or
  b) copy and paste the feed link (http://librivox.org/podcast.xml) into your podcast receiver (for instance, Juice)