Librivox.org
Tuesday 
in the early evening 
Mystie
I’m in the middle of listening to the first book I’ve downloaded from [Librivox.org](http://www.librivox.org), a audio book resource supplied with volunteer-read public-domain works. I chose *War of Worlds* from their quickly-growing selection.
It’s a neat idea and pretty well implemented. It’s free. That’s all good.
However, it’s also disconcerting to have every chapter read by a different voice. Although this book has only about a half-dozen readers, apparently having two chapters in a row read by the same person is against Librivox’s policy. It is also annoying to have the 10-second Librivox intro and ad at the beginning of every single chapter.
War of the Worlds is a first-person account by a man, yet there are female readers. War of the Worlds takes place in England, yet one reader has a German and another a Russian accent. Most of the readers are clearly American, although the one Brit reader has more of a Cockney accent than the traditional gentleman’s accent I’m used to from Blackstone Audio (checked out at the library). Apparently, also, anyone who wants to can volunteer to read. One chap has a lisp, and it was half-way through one chapter that I realized another fellow was saying “London,” because I assumed “Lawn-TON” was some other small English village and “Lawn-TON-airs” were their inhabitants.
Can’t really complain about free things, though.
I absolutely love audio books, but most of my listening will still come from the library system. I’m spoiled on oratorical actors and consistency of tone and pronunciation.
(MCL)
with 
(personal library)
Jeromy has listened to many books from Librivox. Some of the books are read by only one individual. I am not an audio book person, I need to see the words to get the gist. My mind wanders too easily, but Jeromy listens on his way to work every day. It is a neat concept.
Hey it’s a husband wife duo! I just wanted to chime in. I posted about this a while ago. There are some good books, and there are some that are so distracting I could not even get through them. A single reader is definitely preferred. The Swiss Family Robinson has been my favorite. A great tale and clean and God honoring.