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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
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    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
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    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!

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