I recently finished reading William Dean Howells’s 1889 novel A Hazard of New Fortunes. Or rather, I finished reading and listening to it, as I had been partly reading it and partly pacing along with it via the public domain audiobook version available at LibriVox.org. LibriVox is a younger cousin of such public domain stalwarts as the Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg, which were founded in 1996 and 1971, respectively. LibriVox, which started in 2005, is closer in age to Wikipedia, and it shares with all of these sites a highly decentralized, voluntaristic spirit and method. You can stream or Read more