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11

January
2006

3:02 AM

wednesday book reading

The Wizard of Oz, Chapters 1 through 8

I'm not anything like a trained reader, but for what they're worth, the first eight chapters of Baum's The Wizard of Oz are ready for download. Complete with the odd household background noise, fumbled words and, at times, very odd pacing. Significantly cheaper than iTunes. No DRM. No incidental music, either. I don't even hum.

Audio files take up a ton of space, so I can't host them indefinitely. If anyone out there has scads of webspace to donate to the cause, don't be shy!

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next week: 9 through 16

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working weird hours while listening to King Of The Cowboys from the album "Quartette" by Quartette

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tracey — 12 January, 07:01 PM
There is, in fact, a site that hosts free audio books in the public domain. Have you heard of Librivox?

http://librivox.org/

It's all volunteer-driven. You can read a whole book, or collaborate with others. Anything that's in Project Gutenberg is fair game.
pericat — 12 January, 11:21 PM
how very cool! No, the only PD site I'd seen was fussy about readers. Thanks!
Michael H — 13 January, 01:48 PM
Thank you for the book, I have almost finished The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe that my wife got me for Xmas, and had no clue what to listen to next.
pericat — 14 January, 09:57 PM
You're welcome! I'm glad it suited you.

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