http://librivox.org free public domain audiobooks Fri, 25 May 2012 04:18:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://librivox.org/five-children-and-it-by-e-nesbit/comment-page-1/#comment-257862 Audiobooks! « Ms Durbin’s Reading Blog Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:52:57 +0000 http://librivox.org/five-children-and-it-by-e-nesbit/#comment-257862 [...] Five Children and It - E. Nesbit [...] [...] Five Children and It – E. Nesbit [...]

]]> http://librivox.org/five-children-and-it-by-e-nesbit/comment-page-1/#comment-124570 opendoordesign » Five Children and It Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:35:41 +0000 http://librivox.org/five-children-and-it-by-e-nesbit/#comment-124570 [...] Design by Satoko Arai. Download PDF here. Download LibriVox audio files here. [...] [...] Design by Satoko Arai. Download PDF here. Download LibriVox audio files here. [...]

]]> http://librivox.org/five-children-and-it-by-e-nesbit/comment-page-1/#comment-80670 hangingtogether.org » Blog Archive » Rediscovering “It” Online Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:55:54 +0000 http://librivox.org/five-children-and-it-by-e-nesbit/#comment-80670 [...] FictionFinder does a nice job of clustering all of the various manifestations of this fine fairy tale within single “superwork”. (I was a little disappointed didn’t merit an entry in the browsable index of fictional characters; I guess someone else will have to incorporate “It” into another story before that will happen.) If you want to find a copy of the book, for purchase or loan, WorlCat.org is a good place to start. There, bourgeois mums (or the nannies in their employ) can purchase a new edition. Single-parent households (at least those led by music teachers) may still prefer a trip to the local library. As a child of 60’s, I’m happiest with the versions that have been released into the public sphere, to be shelved anywhere you like. I like the TEI-encoded version from Indiana (encoded by Perry Willet, no less), which offers all the advantages of full-text searching, and the (free!) audiobook version is also pretty neat — but the page images from a 1905 edition at the Library of Congress provided the nostalgic satisfaction I was looking for — minus the hue of the binding. You can also download a plain text version from Project Gutenberg. The Psammead has lost none of his magic. Next time I’m in Santa Rosa, I’ll be sure to look him up. [...] [...] FictionFinder does a nice job of clustering all of the various manifestations of this fine fairy tale within single “superwork”. (I was a little disappointed didn’t merit an entry in the browsable index of fictional characters; I guess someone else will have to incorporate “It” into another story before that will happen.) If you want to find a copy of the book, for purchase or loan, WorlCat.org is a good place to start. There, bourgeois mums (or the nannies in their employ) can purchase a new edition. Single-parent households (at least those led by music teachers) may still prefer a trip to the local library. As a child of 60’s, I’m happiest with the versions that have been released into the public sphere, to be shelved anywhere you like. I like the TEI-encoded version from Indiana (encoded by Perry Willet, no less), which offers all the advantages of full-text searching, and the (free!) audiobook version is also pretty neat — but the page images from a 1905 edition at the Library of Congress provided the nostalgic satisfaction I was looking for — minus the hue of the binding. You can also download a plain text version from Project Gutenberg. The Psammead has lost none of his magic. Next time I’m in Santa Rosa, I’ll be sure to look him up. [...]

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