Common Sparrow<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@scottrossi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>scottrossi</span></a></span> </p><p>Librivox has more than 20,000 free audiobooks! And I'm delighted when more folks discover it!</p><p>I discovered it about 15 years ago, when my book club was reading Gaskell's "Wives and Daughters", and I needed an audiobook version because I was driving pizza delivery and had no time to read a physical book. The only audio copy in the library was checked out. But the librarian said, "Hmm, that's in the public domain, let's look elsewhere..." and ta-da! There we were at LibriVox! </p><p>In my family, we were always reading books aloud to each other, so all these different people reading aloud to me felt very homelike and familiar. I didn't really mind that some struggled with lower-quality audio equipment, or that some had accents which started out unfamiliar until I got used to them. Occasionally, I'd find one here and there who just were too rough for me to listen to, but in those cases, I'd just move on to a different recording. </p><p>After listening to many other books for three years, I decided it was time to give something back, so I became a volunteer reader in 2013. I've made many friends there, worked on many enjoyable book projects, and remain a fan.</p><p>I've only just come to Mastodon a month ago, but what strikes me about this site is how the "vibe" feels like the LV forum. Very "home-made", just nice folks building a community of their own.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/LibriVox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LibriVox</span></a></p>