Audio Stories and Audio Books
Reading or listening to stories in English is a great way to improve in language. Stories it is advisable to choose those that are designed for learning English and which use a simplified dictionary.
On the web VOA we find spoken stories of famous authors in a simplified and abbreviated form.
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- Free eBooks – Project Gutenberg – gutenberg.org. It is a volunteer project which helps to collect full texts of public domain books. The project contains over 60 000 free ebooks in its collection. The books are available in formats: plain text, HTML, PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most of the items are the full texts of public domain books. These eBooks may be freely used in the United States. For more details see their Terms of Use page. There are books sorted by popularity.
- LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks – librivox.org. LibriVox helps Gutenberg project to record audio books. In the links on their website you can find everything you need: audio and online text. The texts refer to project Gutenberg. Audio files are available for download in M4B, mp3 format or you can play them on their website. Many of their recording are published on archive.org.
- Lit2Go: books, authors – etc.usf.edu. On this nice page are text and audio in one place. The text is in HTML format. I recomend Lit2Go for English learners. It is useful when you want to read, listen and use a dictionary for some unknown words.
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The originals of these books should be under Public domain license. The Gutenberg project makes many books that are public domain available online as e-books. Be careful, the copyright expiration under Public domain may vary by country and derivative works may be protected by copyright law.
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