http://librivox.org/ - free audiobooks from the public domain
Old enough books loose their copyright and become available in the public domain. This is the foundation of the material published on e.g. the Project Gutenberg site, and LibriVox does the same type of publishing, only the medium is audio: MP3 and OGG files. The books / works (including the Magna Carta and the US Declaration of Independence) are read in by volunteers - quite a fair number of people obviously enjoy reading aloud so much that to participate is a real hobby for them.
The catalog search is efficient, and looks also for partial matches, but tolerates no spelling mistakes:
http://librivox.org/newcatalog/
My personal favorites include authors Jules Verne, Louisa Alcott, Mark Twain, Edith Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and P.G. Wodehouse.
These are some of the best read (IMO) versions of some of my favorite books:
http://librivox.org/a-connecticut-yanke ... k-twain-2/
http://librivox.org/the-adventures-of-h ... version-2/
http://librivox.org/around-the-world-in ... s-verne-2/
http://librivox.org/the-wouldbegoods-by-edith-nesbit/
If you, too, find such pearls, please do post a link here!
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