Uncounted: Resource Pimping: Librivox

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50books_poc Uncounted: Resource Pimping: Librivox

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Librivox.org, which is partnered with Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive, is a non-profit organization that recruits volunteers to create public domain recordings of public domain works.

In layman's terms, free audiobooks. And if you ever wanted to make a techno remix of Shakespeare's sonnets but didn't know where to go in order to get samples, well now you do.

As you can imagine, Librivox is dominated by English-language works as written by white men. There are however works by people of color on the site. Some of the works I found include...

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