Name: Spreading the Feast Gathering
Start: 2025-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-07-12T23:59:59-05:00
Location: LaGrange, KY

Tagged: audio books, free audio books, librivox

This topic has 10 replies, 9 voices, and was last updated 10 years, 4 months ago by jmac17.

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January 19, 2015 at 8:13 pm
pangit
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What are you reading or listening to from LibriVox? It seems a lot of you post about using it, but whenever I look up a book on it, they don’t have it. So, what do they have?
Also, do any of you use one of the LibriVox apps? Which one? Do you like it?
January 19, 2015 at 11:38 pm
jmac17
Participant
Right now I’m listening to Tanglewood Tales. In the past I’ve done Pollyanna, Just David, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Doctor Doolittle, At the Back of the North Wind, Discovery of the New Worlds, Alice in Wonderland, and others I’m not remembering right now. I use it as a way to find out which books I was to add to our read aloud list. My kids have listened to a few, but they’d prefer that I read aloud.
I use a podcatcher called PodTrapper that will play librivox files. I listen to several podcasts as well, so it’s handy to have things in one place. I also have an android app called Librivox Audio Books. I havent used it as much, but it seems to work fine. It gives a list of popular books, so I get ideas I might not have gone searching for otherwise. Then I can designate books as favorites so I can find them again easily.
January 20, 2015 at 6:41 am
Monica
Participant
Right now we’re listening to Peter Pan. We’ve also listened to Huck Finn, The Wizard of Oz series, The Secret Garden, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and countless others!
I don’t have a Librivox app. I just make it a point to look for books in the public domain that I’d like the kids to read.
January 20, 2015 at 11:36 am
TX-Melissa
Participant
On this board are some books we’re listening to from Librivox this year (except for Red Fern):
http://www.pinterest.com/mswood68/literature/
In the past we’ve listened to Kidnapped, Men of Iron, Pilgrim’s Progress (in words of one syllable), Understood Betsy …
January 20, 2015 at 4:14 pm
Wings2fly
Participant
http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Recordings_of_Books_on_the_Ambleside_List
Here is a list of recordings from the AO list.
We have also listened to Uncle Wiggily and Raggedy Ann.
We enjoyed A Little Princess and other stories recorded by Kayray (Kara Shallenberg).
https://librivox.org/reader/19?primary_key=19&search_category=reader&search_page=1&search_form=get_results
January 20, 2015 at 5:46 pm
Karen
Participant
We like KayRay, too! We especially enjoy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. And right now we’re listening to The Best Cmas Pageant Ever (for the 2nd time – the 1st time was before Cmas!).

January 20, 2015 at 8:14 pm
sheraz
Participant
Grimms Fairy Tales, Shakespeare, the Famous Men series, Thorton Burgess books, Blue Fairy Tales, Jacob Abbot biography, Alfred Church books, Fabre science books, Thomas Tapper books on classical musicians, etc. for specific subjects.
Literature we’ve listened to:
Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
Pollyanna and Pollyanna Grows Up
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and sequel
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Little Women, Little Men, and Jo’s Boys
Black Beauty
Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates
The Jungle Book and Second Jungle Book
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
The Railway Children
The Princess and the Goblin
At the Back of the North Wind
Peter Pan
January 21, 2015 at 12:08 pm
pangit
Participant
Thanks.
I downloaded Dr. Dolittle and Burgess Bird book to try out.
January 21, 2015 at 2:57 pm
TGK
Participant
We just finished “Daddy Takes Us Skating” and are beginning “Miss Ashton’s New Pupil.” My 5&7 y.o. liked the first, but this is the first day of the second so I can’t say much about it.
I am also planning on “The Adventures of Buster Bear” and others by Thornton Burgess.
January 21, 2015 at 9:26 pm
cdm2kk
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We have listened to The Reluctant Dragon, Five Little Peppers and How they Grew (had to read 2-3 chapters because new reader had too strong an accent), Burgess Animal book, Princess and the Goblin, Five Children and It and I have Pollyanna on the schedule for next one…
January 21, 2015 at 10:08 pm
jmac17
Participant
So many audiobooks, so little time! I wasn’t the OP, but thanks for all the suggestions, everyone!