I’ve just learned about a handy software program called TextAloud. The program, which offers a free trial download, will read any computer text aloud, and even convert it to an MP3 so you can listed on your iPod or other MP3 player. (Okay, so the speech sounds like Stephen Hawking’s voice machine. But did I mention it’s free?) TextAloud is available at http://www.nextup.com/index.html.
Although many classic texts are available online for free, A Room of One’s Own hasn’t entered the public domain yet in the United States. Interestingly, it is legal to distribute in Australia, and is availble on the University of Adelaide Library page at http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/ or at Project Gutenberg’s Australian site at http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200791h.html. The ebook can be bought legally in the US for about $7, on sites like http://www.ebooks.com/ or http://www.ebookmall.com/.
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