In my copious amounts of spare time, I have started narrating audiobooks for a website called librivox.org.
In case you’re interested, go there and see what’s on offer. Basically, they provide audio versions of out-of-copyright books, poems etc. It is entirely maintained and supported by volunteers and so none of the audiobooks, which are supplied in MP3 or Ogg Vorbis format, cost a bean - they’re totally free!! (but if anyone wants to donate to keep the thing going, they can - please!)
It’s a great cause and anyone with a partially sighted relative who likes a good “read” would do well to go on over and see what’s there. All of the books are out of copyright and can be found in Project Gutenberg - which is a similarly volunteer-maintained resource which has been going for about 30 years.
If you decide to become a reader for the cause, just volunteer, pick a book or poem, get some free software and you’ll be surprised how good you get at it. It didn’t work for me, but I’m doing it anyway :o)
If you have any problems, email me and I’ll see if I can help. However, the good folk at librivox will always help any volunteer - new ones are especially welcome.
So get over to librivox.org, download a book, bung it on your MP3 player and get literatured-up
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