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If

by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Librivox’s weekly poetry project for the week of January 29, 2006: This popular piece was voted Britain’s favourite poem in a BBC opinion poll in 1995.
(Summary from Wikipedia)

• Gutenberg e-text
• Wikipedia - Rudyard Kipling
• Wikipedia - If
• LibriVox’s If Internet Archive page
• Bit Torrent of the entire collection
• Zip file of all poems (18.4MB)
• RSS feed · Subscribe in iTunes · Chapter-a-day

mp3 and ogg files

• Version 1 - 00:02:07
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.0MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.5MB]
  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Version 2 - 00:02:29
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.1MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.3MB]
  Read by: Catharine Eastman
• Version 3 - 00:02:39
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.6MB]
  Read by: Chip
• Version 4 - 00:02:01
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.0MB]
  Read by: Fox in the Stars
• Version 5 - 00:01:43
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  [mp3@128kbps - 1.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.0MB]
  Read by: Gregory Rubin
• Version 6 - 00:02:49
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.2MB]
  Read by: Kayvan Sylvan
• Version 7 - 00:02:11
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  [mp3@128kbps - 2.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.0MB]
  Read by: Kara Shallenberg
• Version 8 - 00:02:36
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  [mp3@128kbps - 2.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.2MB]
  Read by: Linton
• Version 9 - 00:02:00
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.4MB]
  Read by: Lydia Uribe
• Version 10 - 00:01:45
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.3MB]
  Read by: Martin Clifton
• Version 11 - 00:02:11
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  [mp3@128kbps - 2.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.4MB]
  Read by: Marlo Dianne
• Version 12 - 00:01:47
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  [mp3@128kbps - 1.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.0MB]
  Read by: Norah Piehl
• Version 13 - 00:02:31
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  [mp3@128kbps - 2.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.5MB]
  Read by: Patricia Oakley
• Version 14 - 00:02:54
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  [mp3@128kbps - 2.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.6MB]
  Read by: Robert Rakauskas
• Version 15 - 00:02:13
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  [mp3@128kbps - 2.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.2MB]
  Read by: Stefan Schmelz
• Version 16 - 00:02:33
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  [mp3@128kbps - 2.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.6MB]
  Read by: Steve Anderson
• Version 17 - 00:01:46
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  [mp3@128kbps - 1.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.0MB]
  Read by: Seth Woodworth