Free public domain audio books

Librivox is a site where volunteers read public-domain books aloud and the resulting audio books are made available for free download as podcasts. Also see Branko Collin's article on it. (Posted for David Faucheux.)

'Library Thing'

"Library Thing pulls the information from Amazon, so you're bound to find your book in the search results. When you add a book to your library, tag it withkeywords. This helps you organize books by subject or location. I like to tag my books as read or unread. But my favorite feature is the reviews. The site has a lot of members, and many of them post comments on books." - Kim Komando (item spotted by David Faucheux).

Addendum from David Rothman: Also see Branko Collin's post to the main TeleRead blog.

Hickam, Dos Passos and Dostoyevsky featured in Tom Peters' forthcoming chatcasts

Homer Hickam's Sky of Stone, John Dos Passos's The 42nd Parallel and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov will be featured in Tom Peters' next chatcasts for Online Programming for All Libraries and the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center.

Sky will be discussed Nov. 21, with The 42nd Parallel set for Dec. 20 and the Brothers K for Jan. 31. As noted those are audiochats, though you can ask questions by typing, not just with voice. Go here to log in and get the software, which is spyware-free. Pictured is Homer Hickam, author of Sky and also the topic of a recent TeleRead post. Coming in December--date not yet set--may be a discussion of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 led by Bradbury expert Loren Logsdon, an English professor from Eureka College in Illinois. Bradbury was born in Waukegan.

Meanwhile see the main TeleRead blog for more details onthe Hickam, Dos Passos and Dostoyevsky chatcasts.