Archive for the ‘commercial’ Category

non-free premium non-fiction: The Teaching Company

Friday, July 25th, 2008

about $100 per course (free at some public libraries)
The Cadillac of audible non-fiction, the teaching company offers great college courses in audioform. Now that they offer content in mp3 form, they qualify as a podpook publisher.

The courses are designed for adult life long learners. This means that they strive at the parts of a subject that are intellectually interesting but not bogged down in the minutia that professional training would entail. So it may fail some looking for professional training but they are interesting enough.

Christian Podbooks

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Audiotreasure offers the bible for free download or on a low cost CD.

freechristianaudioSome computer read books are not everyone’s cup of tea. I myself am leaning strongly toward these types of books because I can quickly make one for myself from any text I can download or scan onto my computer.

Christian audio.com is a commercial site but offers the old Christian Classics ethereal Library audio collection and a free download of the month.

The former CCEL collection books can be found scattered about the net now. For example G. K Chesteron’s works can be found at librivox. I might set about the project of making a recommended list.

Looks like this catholic collection is immense.