Free – thousands of online books and audiobooks

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1) Whilst looking for an e-copy of Dickens Hard Times I came across this amazing site that provides MP3, downloadable versions of classic books and much else – free audio-books – Librivox.

The Librivox catalogue starts HERE

2) The Librivox material was on an even more astonishing site the Internet Archive

The Internet Achive is about;

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes textsaudiomoving images, and software as well asarchived web pages in our collections. 

3) What an amazing age in which we live – at least in terms of learning and communication – SAVE THE INTERNET