LibriVox<\/a>, the all-volunteer audiobook project, just cataloged it’s 1,500th book, James Baldwin’s children’s history book, Four Great Americans<\/a>. This milestone was reached during the record-breaking month of May, when LibriVox released 115 (!) audiobooks into the public domain, or almost four per day. Some gems from the catalog include:<\/p>\n

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• Enviro\/sci-fi\/horror surprise, Greener Than You Think<\/a>, by Ward Moore<\/li>\n
• Cervantes’ Don Quixote, in Spanish<\/a> and English<\/a><\/li>\n
• Dream Psychology<\/a>, by Sigmund Freud<\/li>\n
• Tree-swinging favorite, Tarzan of the Apes<\/a> by Edgar Rice Burroughs<\/li>\n
• The beautiful Japanese zenish masterpiece, Book of Tea<\/a>, by Okakura Kakuzo<\/li>\n
• Cosmological page-turner, Relativity: The Special and General Theory<\/a>, by Albert Einstein.\n
• John Stuart Mill’s handbook for ethical philosophizing, Utilitarianism<\/a><\/li>\n
• Rudyard Kipling’s Indian adventure yarn, Kim<\/a><\/li>\n
• Supercomupter scifi classic, The Cosmic Computer<\/a>, by H. Beam Piper<\/li>\n
• Voltaire’s Candide<\/a>, en francais, bien sur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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  LibriVox, the all-volunteer audiobook project, just cataloged it’s 1,500th book, James Baldwin’s children’s history book, Four Great Americans. This milestone was reached during the record-breaking…<\/p>\n

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