Open Library VS LibriVox

Open Library Reviews

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Open Library mentions (263)

• MLIS books available digitally?

  Check out https://openlibrary.org. You can search ´library science’, librarian’, etc, and something should come up. Just select the ‘ebooks’ option to search for items within the collection. And you can narrow the search by subject, etc. Source: 5 months ago

• NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month

  Right now I'm in the middle of the chicken and the egg problem where we don't have enough authors cataloging their publications and b/c of that obviously readers are not interested in using the site. I've gone back and forth with taking Open Libray's [0] catalog as that would at least flesh out our collection of books but then I'd have to deal with verifying authors to accounts so they can access their books.... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• is there any way to read books for free?

  Here's one: https://openlibrary.org/. Source: 6 months ago

• YSK: You can access many old and out of print hiking books from the Internet Archive's Open Library

  The Internet Archive runs what they call the Open Library, which is a unique concept on the traditional library. You can sign-up with minimal details and digitally check out many scanned books from libraries all over the world. The only caveat is that almost all of the books are older editions - ones that would be impossible to find locally. It's great if you're looking for old routes, a look back in time, details... Source: 6 months ago

• Searching for a pharmacy book

  I want to clarify that I'm a non-US citizen, so accessing physical copies from US libraries or buying it from Amazon might not be feasible for me. To give you some context, my personal research was guided by the wiki section of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH (https://www.reddit.com/r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/wiki/reading/). I've conducted research using various online resources, including the Ebook & Open Source/Access Libraries... Source: 7 months ago

LibriVox mentions (228)

• Can We Please Put an End to Overperformed Audiobooks?

  This reminds me that I've always wanted to just record my own versions of audiobook. For years now there's been a site where volunteers are creating free, public domain audiobooks... https://librivox.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• WhisperSpeech – An Open Source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper

  Thank you. Is the Polish collection also a volunteer effort? Link to librivox for others: https://librivox.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Old git here, if I narrate an old free book where is a good place to upload it?

  Go to Librivox- plenty of opportunities there and they need people like you. Source: 5 months ago

• Could I read books for authors to publish audiobooks for free?

  Check out Librivox you might enjoy doing it. Source: 5 months ago

• What do you do while you are quilting?

  Just FYI for everyone, Librivox is a project to make free, public-domain audiobooks of out-of-copyright books! Source: 5 months ago