![]() ![]() And you can save favorites and even download them. You can search for a book via the author, the genre or the reader. If you need a few laughs you might want to start with “ My man Jeeves”. If you’re wanting something sweet with a happy ending I suggest “ The emancipation of aunt Crete”. I suggest when you get a reader that you enjoy their voice and do a search for the reader’s name and you’re probably get some great suggestions for your next book. Plus I found myself listening to authors/books that I didn’t even know existed. I was really impressed with the selection of books, almost all the classics. I’ve been using this app since it’s conception. Once in a while you will get a reader that’s not that good but for the most part I really enjoy listening. Great readers especially since they’re all volunteers. The app remembers your position, so you can return to a book later, and includes unlimited bookmarks and a sleep timer for your convenience. Because the books are free, you can listen to as much or as little of a book as you like with no cost. You can browse by title, author or genre, look at new recordings, or search by key word. The LibriVox AudioBook app makes it easy to search the LibriVox catalog of free audio books. New releases are prepared daily, and the entire catalog spans the breadth of world literature, including novels, history, biography, short stories, poetry and more in both fiction and non-fiction. The LibriVox Audio Books app features classic best sellers and out of print treasures from every genre of literature in more than 30 languages.Īudio books from LibriVox are free thanks to the dedicated work of hundreds of volunteers who record, edit and distribute the books. Each audiobook can be streamed over the internet or downloaded for later use. LibriVox Audio Books provides unlimited access to over 40,000 audio books. it would be nice to read in print, then switch to TTS while commuting or working out, then back to print.Unlimited access to over 40,000 classic audio books Plus TTS allows synchronizing between print and speech which you can't get between ebooks and audiobooks i.e. Soon enough neural net TTS + ebooks will be nearly equivalent, and doesn't cost any more than the base ebook. You could find 10 people who have better reading voices than any particular famous person, unless your only objective is to hear your favorite famous person read a book, any book.Īlso, subscription plans are designed around most people not using them fully, and not optimizing their purchases. ![]() Sometimes it's because they get famous people to read books, which is a blatant cash grab by the voice artist and/or by Audible. Yet Audible rakes in huge amounts of cash by charging a premium (particularly popular titles) for audiobooks over regular ebooks. Recording audio books requires extra labor, but not much (how many person-hours does it take to record War and Peace compared to person-hours spent by each publisher publishing a new edition, even assuming the use of an existing translation?). I think this (pre-recorded) audio book thing is a short-term phenomenon that's creating an economic distortion. ![]() Would I would love even more is to have commentaries or Joe-Rogan-Style recorded discussions about the books by academics so I could read the book, listen to discussions about the book, then read the book again with these critiques in mind. That said, listening-only is far better than having no exposure to these great works. To really absorb a work and make it your own I think you need to take notes and summarize the main points of each chapter, in your own words, after finishing each chapter. One significant negative of audiobooks is that I tend to listen while doing "active but mindless" activities (mowing the lawn, commuting, cleaning my office, doing dishes/chores) which means I'm not in a position to stop and take notes in the margin or in a notebook. Is there something inherent in literature that requires it to be visually consumed? Yes, it's too easy to let one's mind wander while listening to an audiobook but I find it helps to have a group/book club with which to discuss the book afterward.
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