id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6858 LibriVox - Wikipedia .html text/html 1750 214 66 LibriVox is a group of worldwide volunteers who read and record public domain texts creating free public domain audiobooks for download from their website and other digital library hosting sites on the internet. It was founded in 2005 by Hugh McGuire to provide "Acoustical liberation of books in the public domain"[2] and the LibriVox objective is "To make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet".[3] LibriVox was started in August 2005 by Montreal-based writer Hugh McGuire, who set up a blog, and posed the question.[5][6] The first recorded book was The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad.[7] LibriVox is a volunteer-run, free content, public domain project. Once a volunteer has recorded his or her contribution, it is uploaded to the site, and proof-listened by members of the LibriVox community. ^ "The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection", The Internet Archive. ^ "Librivox free audio books", Review. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6858.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6858.txt