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Free Audiobooks & Podcasts
FREE Audiobooks & eBooks
Audiobooks are valuable and enjoyable for most readers, but for those who have reading difficulties hearing the text provides many benefits: they help with fluency, pronunciation, vocabulary, enhancing visual imager, and critical thinking skills.If the text can be viewed also, the benefits are multiplied.
Besides the books on CD, Playaways, and ebooks that we are familiar with through our usual vendors and bookstores, here are other resources for the school library that students, parents, and teachers value:
This collection represents some of the most well-known speeches of the 20th century, spanning the years 1908-1991. Each speech has been edited to include the most memorable and noteworthy segment. Every attempt has been made to include a variety of speakers in the political, historical, inspirational and topical categories. Great Speeches Of The 20th Century was designed to be used in research in schools, colleges, and universities, or simply as reference for those who have even a casual interest in historically important oration.
Free & Fee. Scroll down to "Browse Free Audio & Video Titles by Category." Also FREE podcasts, such as Founding Fathers, Great Speeches, Philosophy readings.
"Audiobooks from the public domain. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we releasea the audio files back on to the net for free. All our audio is in the public domain, so you may use it for whatever purpose you wish."
"Committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high quality audio performances. We pair together great literature and accompanying audio. Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragraph structure by listening and reading masterpieces of the written word. Read and listen via your web browser or on your MP3 player"
A "public domain audiobook podcast--for people with catholic tastes." Novels, religious books, essays, folk tales, humor, love, poetry, plays, science fiction, short stories, Church Fathers
Audiobook, human read, "The place where you can download over 30,000 free books to read on your PC, iPhone, Kindle, Sony Reader or other portable device."
Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in MP3 format. You can download files to your ploayer and listen on the go or download and listen on your computer. From Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse.