Public domain books, ready for your iPod

Emerging collectives offer free or inexpensive audiobooks of works whose copyrights have expired.
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[KsprayDad]

iPod

If these are in MP3 format why are you mentioning iPod in the title? How about:

Public Domain Books, Ready for Portable Listening

There are many of us that are not being served by story titles that alude to needing an iPod for a service when you don't.

[J.G.]

Quicktime is not a download

I was disappointed to discover that Literal Systems, the free audio books distributor that bills itself as offering better quality recordings, does not actually download content, at least on a Mac. Instead, it just plays a Quicktime file. Fine, if you have time to sit and listen at your computer. But, most folks with MP3 players will want to take the material with them.

LibriVox does get distribution right, including having direct podcasts downloaded from the iTunes Music Store. All one has to do is go to iTMS or LibriVox's homepage and subscribe.

[ab2525]

Librivox .ISOs Available

Great news! You can get the full Librivox catalog as a set of .iso CD images chock full of .mp3s at this URL: <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://librivarc.cabspace.com" target="_newWindow">http://librivarc.cabspace.com</a>