BoingBoing reports on Librivox, a project to get volunteers to create audio recordings of public domain books:

LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting? Here’s how it works (for now):

A book will be selected by LibriVox from the gutenberg project’s database of public domain books
(We hope that) a few volunteers will step up to read and record to mp3 one or more chapters from the chosen book, so that we’ll finish with a complete audio book (or audiobook).
If you have your own podcast, you could do a special LibriVox edition of your show, and let me know about it; then I’ll grab the audio and put it up on Ourmedia.org, which stores files on the internet archive
If you don’t have a podcast, let me know and we’ll find a way to get the chapters uploaded to the LibriVox Ourmedia.org site
Each new chapter will be linked from LibriVox, and podcast through feedburner.
Once all chapters from a given book are finished, a new book will be chosen and the process will begin again!