Hello community, I was wondering if someone could help me out.
I am doing an awfull lot of travelling at the moment inside a vehicle of which I am in charge, spending four to five hours behind the wheel at a time.
To make these voyages more enjoyable I have been downloading old time radio shows and audiobooks but i am finding it hard to find a large library to browse through on the web.
I tried librivox but could only handle so much story time with Stephen Hawkins. Interestingly, the copy of ‘The Grand Design’ i obtained several weeks ago is one of the few audio books i have not read by a machine.
anywho, what i am tring to get at is, can anyone help me?
is there a piratebay esk audiobook site or something to that matter?
They have tons of out-of-copyright books – mostly in HTML, plain text, and various ebook formats. But… they have some audio books. The problem is that there is no good way to search just for audio books.
That’s funny, and I know what you mean. The other day, I heard a disabled woman speak using a voice synthesizing computer device, and it sounded amazing. Like a sexy British schoolteacher. Yet Stephen Hawking still seems to be using a Speak 'n Spell from circa 1981 to do his voicing for him. I don’t know if this is just because I’m watching old videos, or because he’s stuck with that voice to remain recognizable. As if that’s what Stephen Hawking sounds like.
BTW, I trust you were referring to the Physicist Stephen Hawking, and not Stephen Hawkins the Olympic Rower, or Stephen Hawkins the Magician…
Sorry, I don’t have any sources for audiobooks other than commercial ones like iTunes and similar.
Almost all the audio-books I listen to are published by podiobooks.com
Perfectly legit free audiobooks published in a podcast format. It’s mostly new/unknown authors so there is lots of crap but also lots of really good stories.
My drive home from work at the end of a shift takes me about 7 hours, more if I swing by the city, so I go through a lot of audio-books on my drives too and from work.
One thing I found that was pretty cool was some old mercury theatre episodes. They don’t have mp3s for all of them but it’s neat to hear Orson Welles, including the infamous 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast.
Tom, if your vehicle has a CD player or even a cassette player (kids, ask your parents) then the audio section of your local library should have a decent selection of stuff.
This is how I got into The Goon Show as a teenager.
My sister (7) doesn’t now what a cassette is. make it even better my truck has a 8track player still works with original cassette player on the bottom. for my birthday last year my dad got me a Super nice stario but we left the 8track and the cassette player in and they still work
