A site called LibriVox
now has a catalog of over 1,000 free audiobooks. They are all
in the public domain; all have been read and recorded by volunteers.
It's a nice supplement to the 20,000+ free books in the
href="http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page">Project
Gutenberg Online Book Catalog.
HT:
href="http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/2007/11/librivox-releases-its-1000th-free.html">Open-Access
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Like they say on the site, "acoustical liberation of books in the public domain." Very nice.