Jane Austen Audio Book

Say you listen to a audio book (such as Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen) and someone later asks you if you have read the book. Would you say that you have, or would you say yes and then clarify that you had listened to it instead of read it? Or say someone is talking about the book and you chime in, "Oh, I have read that book!" Is that ethically correctly to say? Does it not really matter to you? Should I have to specify I listened to it instead of read it?
It would not be for a school project (I am out of school) and I have no reading disability. I just prefer listening to books over reading them.

For some people, listening to an audiobook is the only way they have of "reading" that book. But I suppose that, if you're not visually impaired or dyslexic or otherwise physically unable to read print, it would be scrupulous of you to say, "I read that as an audiobook." However, if you've taken in every word and can discuss the book, does it really matter whether your familiarity comes from print or recording? After all, is there any ethical difference for a blind person between reading a book with his fingertips and reading it with his ears?

2009-11-01 19:28:30 by bwiley123

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Audio book This book is in the public domain enjoy and comment!

I owe my library a ton of money--though I don't know why!! They're robbing me!!--Anyway, I'd like to get an audiobook copy of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen--I mean online, where I can shove it on iTunes. Anybody know a good one...? I can't find any. :(

Thank you so much!
OH! It has to be free. I'm a broke teenager.

Hope you can use these:

http://www.archive.org/details/pride_and _prejudice_librivox
http://www.dontforward.com/freebooks/200 6/01/pride-and-prejudice.html

2006-09-12 18:00:38 by Invictus

Price: $0.99

heya. does anyone know where i can download legally free audio books? preferably modern ones such as twilight, harry potter etc, not jane austen. please put the site hyperlink.
thanks

Hiya,

ITunes (as mentioned by Robin)

Or: BooksOnBoard:
http://www.booksonboard.com/search.html< br />
The Audio Book Store:
http://www.theaudiobookstore.com/servlet /-strse-Twilight-Series-Stephenie-Meyer/ Categories

RapidLibrary:
http://rapidlibrary.com/index.php?q=twil ight+audio+books

Audible.com:
http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/product s/ProductDetail.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@182 8365793.1240343368@@@@&BV_EngineID=c ccjadehdgfmfhicefecekjdffidfij.0&cus tomerReview=yes&dispType=Review& productID=BK_LILI_000634&pageNumber= 2

Listening Library:
http://www.randomhouse.com/audio/feature s/stephenie-meyer/

Twilight Series:
http://twilight.judyoz.com/?p=2062

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2009-04-21 11:22:50 by STRANGE REDHEAD &lt;3

Price: $0.00 $0.00

User-friendly interface with regular catalog updates of new, free content
Professionally mastered readings de-noised and edited for undisturbed listening
Growing catalog includes more than 80 book titles and hundreds of short works

I have an iPod, and I wanted to know where you can get free audiobooks for your iPod at.
A rapidshare link, or what?
I'd really like
"Pride and Prejudice"-Jane Austen
"Twilight" (or the whole series) -Stephenie Meyer
any books by Ellen Hopkins.

Or any other free audio books for ipod would be great.

http://www.archive.org/details/audio_boo kspoetry

2009-01-27 14:37:04 by freelancerjt

So I have put together a list of great books.
1 Don Quixote 1605, 1630 Miguel de Cervantes Catholic
2 War and Peace 1869 Leo Tolstoy Russian Orthodox
3 Ulysses 1922 James Joyce Catholic (lapsed)
4 In Search of Lost Time 1913-27 Marcel Proust Jewish Catholic
5 The Brothers Karamazov 1880 Feodor Dostoevsky Russian Orthodox
6 Moby-Dick 1851 Herman Melville Transcendentalist
7 Madame Bovary 1857 Gustave Flaubert Catholic
8 Middlemarch 1871-72 George Eliot Anglican; agnostic
9 The Magic Mountain 1924 Thomas Mann Lutheran
10 The Tale of Genji 11th Century Murasaki Shikibu Buddhist/Shinto culture
11 Emma 1816 Jane Austen Anglican
12 Bleak House 1852-53 Charles Dickens Anglican
13 Anna Karenina 1877 Leo Tolstoy Russian Orthodox
14 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884 Mark Twain Presbyterian
15 Tom Jones 1749 Henry Fielding


These are just some of them. There are nearly 100.
Now I would like to read them all.
Shakespeare, Plato and a lot of modern classics too.

The great thing is i found the majority of them on a site called archive.org in audio version.

1 So if I listened to all these books instead of reading them, would i miss out on anything??????
2 What do you think of reading vs listening? Do you consider it easier? Generaly it takes much longer to listen to a book vs reading.
3 Listening to Shakespeare and Plato make sense to me since the language is so different, But listening to 1984, or Moby Dick would i be losing something?

If you get unabridged audio versions you miss nothing of the book. I do both listen and read books. I have them in the car when I drive and enjoy them. I have listened to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell while listening at the same time as the language is different and I found i got on really well.

I listen to audio books while doing other things like cleaning and ironing or my embroidery and when I want to relax I read a book.

2008-10-01 08:19:53 by Rightttt