LibriVox: free audiobooks in multiple languages
December 21, 2006
LibriVox, a collection of free volunteer-created audio books, has grown quite a bit since I first blogged about it in September of 2005. The Centered Librarian alerted me to the fact that their collection of non-English titles has grown quite a bit. You can find audiobooks in Chinese, French, German and other languages.
For the complete list of their non-English titles, go to: http://librivox.org/completed-works-in-other-languages/.
To see their English language catalog of books (176 now!), poetry, children’s literature, short stories, and more, go to: http://librivox.org/librivox-catalogue/. This is quite a resource!
December 29th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
This is pretty cool what they have done at LibriVox. I read their “copyright” statement and it said that while a copyright is in force, no one can make an audio transcript of a book. Is this your understanding as well? So, this would mean that having people read books out loud to others and recording it would be against copyright?
December 29th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
Yes, that is my understanding of copyright law. Unless the book is out of copyright, reading out out loud and recording it is violating copyright.