I was reminded recently of the existance of LibriVox: a site in which volunteeers read books and shorter works and creates public domain audio books out of them. There are now 117 completed books in their catalog, including one of my childhood favorites, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, in no less than two separate recordings. Lots of good fodder for your cheap $40 MP3 player.

Addendum: I have on a couple of occasions plugged the human read versions of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on Project Gutenberg. For some reason, the 32kpbs version of that work didn’t agree with my new little MP3 player. In the middle of many of them, they would simply skip to the end. The 16kbps versions didn’t have this problem.