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| Audiobooks are a very good way to learn a foreign language. Choose a favorite author, a favorite title and start listening wherever you are:preferably in bed, comfortably late at night, listening completely at your leasure. Take a subject you're familiar with, or, take a novel, story you already read in your native language. This really is a great way to improve both your listening skills, pronunciation and vocabulary! | ||
| Project Gutenberg. Section audiobooks | Starting collection of human-read audiobooks. Gutenberg: the mother of all e-book providers. | |
| Librivox | LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening. The first step is to get the mp3 or ogg files into your own computer. Wonderful project. | |
| Audiobooksforfree | Free or low-priced audiobooks. You'll have to register. | |
| Internet Archive. Audio | Quote:"...Welcome to the Archive's audio and MP3 library. This library contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download. " | |
| World Public Library | Very large list of books: from Ilias to modern writers, children's book, fiction and non fiction. Have to pay $8.95 annually (Students $2) | |
| School Book Library | Part of Worl Public Library. Same price | |
| Literalsystems | Small but growing collection of audiobooks, created by a group of volunteering actors. | |
| Gizmo's Freeware | A listing of hundreds of places to find and download audio- and ebooks | |
| Some productions from Literalsystems.org: | ||
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| Kurt Vonnegut Jr. "2BR02B" |  | |
| The Clever Grethel fairytale | | |
| The Briar Rose fairy tale | | |
| The travelling musicians fairytale | | |
eBooks | ||
Don't confuse audiobooks with eBooks, electronic books. Many years ago the Gutenberg project introduced this concept: free books, newspapers and other publications to be downloaded and read on your computer. Stanza comes in two forms: Stanza iPhone/iPod, and Stanza Desktop. Another good product, called eReader Pro, available for all platforms and all different handhelds can be downloaded for free as well. And, not to forget, to do all the things mentioned above and more...than Calibre might be an option. Though a bit more complex I do prefer Calibre since it allows me to:
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Below a few examples of e-publishing organizations. Project Gutenberg
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