This month there are several audio book versions of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” available for free online. I received an email from “Learn Out Loud” about each, and will provide you with their links to the various sources for readings of Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol”. I have downloaded a couple of different readings. [...]
December is known to some as Spiritual Literacy Month. Is there a special book to read during Spiritual Literacy Month? Is it talking about a book at all? The general definition for Spiritual Literacy Month is listed in Chases Calendar of Events as a time for “promoting respect for and among the world’s religions and [...]
According to This Day in History, today is the anniversary of the publication of Moby Dick, by Herman Melville. The classic about Captain Ahab and his obsession with killing a great white whale was published in 1851. Melville never got to appreciate the success of his book as it didn’t become popular until after his [...]
During the month of April, you can download an audio book for free by one of my favorite people, Corrie Ten Boom, who survived the Nazi concentrations camps. The book is well known to many as “The Hiding Place”, a movie was done based on the book. Corrie Ten Boom was a remarkable woman, and [...]
I have purchased and downloaded audio books on a number of occasions and listened to them with my husband. What I wasn’t aware of, because I didn’t bother to take the time to look, is the fact that there are many books available for download that are public domain, no longer under copyright restrictions. I [...]
Books are a popular gift to give for Christmas, here are some ideas for those who are interested in painting, drawing, fashion and photography as it relates to art at my favorite place to shop for books. I have provided some tips for buying USED but NEW at my Baby Boomer Penny Pincher site. Here [...]
I want to take a moment to introduce you to a site a friend is putting together related to books called “eBook Tree Saver“, a nice name for a site, because of the paperless nature of ebooks. It’s still under construction, but I like the concept. eBooks, and audio books alike are paperless, and save [...]
I can’t seem to get away from thinking “medical” when I post to my blogs after our experience with our son in the hospital last week. So when I came upon a site called http://www.medicalmags.com/ or “MedicalMags”, how could I resist visiting? There are quite a few publications available at the site that would be [...]
As promised in the previous post, I did a little homework, and found a simple explanation on making your own audio book that someone had posted to a popular article site, very basic information…easy enough for even me to understand This article was written a few years ago, so I don’t know what improvements have [...]
Today I was visiting a site that has a selection of sound effects and music, and it made me wonder how many people have ever made their own Audio Book? With the technology that is available to record and save your recordings, then mix with background sound or music, it doesn’t seem impossible…I’m going to [...]