It continually amazes me how people come up with new stuff in this electronic arena. To wit, Chapterme:
This site is meant to help you discover books and authors by listening to random chapters. Then, your tastes will be compared with those of other listeners in order to choose other chapters.
The recordings are created by the fabulous LibriVox.org site. At any time you can go to the book page on LibriVox.org and listen to the whole book. From there, you can navigate to Project Gutenberg if you want to get the text.
Could be fun to try it out on a rainy afternoon.
