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OCEANSIDE, Calif., Aug 25, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- It is possible to enjoy free audiobooks at LibriVox.com, as long as they were written before 1923.
Five years ago, Kara Shallenberg of Oceanside, Calif., and her 10-year-old son, exhausted the collection of audiobooks at the local library. So she began recording his favorite books for him, The New York Times reported Friday.
Last fall she took her hobby to a wider audience by volunteering for LibirVox and her recordings are now available for free on the Internet.
All of the audiobooks recorded at LibriVox are in MP3 format.
LibriVox is the largest of several Web sites that offer free or cheap audiobooks of works with expired copyrights, which means basically anything written in the United States before 1923.
"The principles of the project are to be totally non-commercial, totally ad free, totally volunteer and totally public domain," said LibriVox founder Hugh McGuire of Montreal.
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