Lit2Go #literature #audiobooks

Lit2Go is a free online collection of public domain fiction, poetry, and nonfiction audiobooks in MP3 format . An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages.

Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom. 

Stories can be searched by author, book, genre, collection, and readability.

Lit2Go is an ongoing project of the Florida Center for Instructional Technology 

Find Lit2Go on:

https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ 

Audio Books & Poetry

Free audio books and poetry recordings! This library of audio books and poetry features digital recordings and MP3's from the Naropa Poetics Audio Archive, LibriVox, Project Gutenberg, Maria Lectrix, and Internet Archive users 

https://archive.org/details/audio_bookspoetry 

Top 100 & More Free audio books and ebooks

A compilation of free public domain audio books and ebooks by Loyal Books, sorted by genre and language, with information and links about each book.

You can also search them by title, author, and keyword.

http://www.loyalbooks.com/Top_100

More audio books and ebooks on:

http://www.loyalbooks.com/

1,000 Free Audio Books

On this webpage you can download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer for free.

A very interesting resource to develop listening skills.

Visit:

http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks

LoyalBooks.com

Books Should Be Free changed its name to Loyal Books to show how important books are to our lives. Collection of completely free public domain audiobooks and ebooks.

LoyalBooks provides a primarily visual browsing experience so you don't have to read tedious amounts to find listening material. The LoyalBooks.com website is also screen reader friendly making its resources accessible to people with vision disabilities.

http://www.loyalbooks.com/

900 Free Audio Books

If you are interested in literature, you can download more than 900 free audio books in English language to your MP3 player or your computer from this website:

http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks

Storynory

Storynory is a website with a collection of stories (from original stories or myths to classic fairy tales) sorted into different categories. It is an excellent podcast for listeners of all ages, very useful in English classes and recommended to parents and students for outside reading, especially, for contexts with limited resources.

The audio stories are free and regularly updated. All their stories come with and HTML audio player. Their feed is also a free service.

On Twitter: @storynory

http://www.storynory.com/

AudioLiterate

This website offers free and paid audiobooks that you can listen to online or download. The majority of audiobooks on this site are free as they are public domain works that have been read and recorded by a range of volunteers. The homepage features an advanced search module which allows you to filter by author, genre and price.
http://audioliterate.com/

Free Audio Books

Thousands of free audio books that you can download in mp3, iPod and iTunes formats for your portable audio player. Audio previews, convenient categories and excellent search functionality

http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/

Lit2Go

Lit2Go is an online service of Florida’s Educational Technology Clearinghouse. It offers a free online collection of stories and poems in mp3 (audiobook) format. 

You can:

- Browse by author, title, reading level, subject matter, etc.
- Download the files to your mp3 player and listen on the go,
- Listen to the mp3 files on your computer,
- View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen,
- Print out the stories and poems to make your own book.

An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom. (Source: http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/)