Free Audiobooks on LibriVox Have RSS Feeds
The free audiobook service LibriVox, which has volunteers narrating thousands of books in the public domain, offers an RSS feed for each book. Here's the RSS feed for This Crowded Earth, a 1958 science fiction novel by Robert Bloch: https://librivox.org/rss/2921
There's an item element in the feed for each chapter with an enclosure containing the audio of that chapter. Add the feed's URL to podcasting software to listen to the book as a podcast.
The book feeds are valid RSS but we have one suggestion for an improvement. The feeds could work in a wider range of podcast clients if there was a guid element in each item such as this:
<guid isPermaLink="false">thiscrowdedearth_01_bloch_64kb.mp3</guid>
This guid uses the filename of a chapter as the unique value. When there's no guid RSS readers look at the item's link for a possible unique identifier, but these feeds use the book's URL in every item.
Categories: RSS, RSS Guid, Podcasting, Audiobooks
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