You can join voice-chat discussions of The Great Gatsby, a Louise Erdrich novel, a Theodore Roosevelt bio and other works. It’s through Audio Avenue, sponsored by the Illinois Talking Book Centers and Maine State Library Outreach. Gatsby Day is Feb. 19. More details via the Handheld Librarian.

Idea: Perhaps some public domain sites can experiment with similar activities, and meanwhile it’ll be great if PD books can serve as fodder for some future Audio Avenue discussions. Bet that’ll happen. Tom Peters and Lori Bell, who run the discussion programs, which are for the vision impaired but open to anyone, are extremely hip on public domain issues, judging from Tom’s questions from his TeleRead interview yesterday.

Detail: If you lack a mike or soundcard, you can still participate with old-fashioned typing.

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