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Finding and using electronic books from the JHU libraries..
Audio Books in the Library
The library has audiobooks.
- In Advanced Search, put the words audiobooks fiction in the SUBJECT
- On the left, under FORMAT, choose "non-musical recordings"
- Now, choose "online"
Here are our audiobooks which are fiction.
- Focus your search by adding words, narrowing the dates, choosing language, etc.
Free Audio Books (outside the library)
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Legamus!Recordings in English, Dutch, French, Italian, Polish.
This site has recordings of books in the public domain, meaning out of copyright in Europe (that is, at least 70 years after the author’s death.) -
LibriVoxThis site has volunteers read chapters of books that are not under copyright, and then puts the audio files onto the Internet. Help for listening or downloading: https://librivox.org/pages/help/#1 .
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Loyal Books (formerly "Books Should Be Free")"Books Should Be Free" makes the world's public-domain audio books available for browsing in a visual and entertaining way. Books are browsable by their cover and include fiction, nonfiction, children's books, classics, and more.
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Project Gutenberg- The Audio Books ProjectProject Gutenberg makes audio e-books available in two different categories: human-read and computer-generated. These files can be very large, so are not good for modems or other low-speed connection.
Foreign Language Audio Books (outside the library)
- French: audiocite.net and litteratureaudio.com
- Italian: Liber, liber
- Spanish: albalearning.com
- German: vorleser.net
- Dutch: radioboeken.be and biblioo.nl
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Project Gutenberg - the Audio ProjectProject Gutenberg has more than 28,000 free e-books, in more than 50 languages.