Librivox, the Montreal-based collaborative free audiobook creating community, has finished its most ambitious project yet: James Joyce’s Ulysses. It clocks in at a total 32 hours, 39 minutes.
Apparently it takes that long to read a 265,000-word text.
They should be careful. Joyce’s work is jealously guarded by a descendant of his who has capriciously done things in recent years like forbid even a live reading of Ulysses on June 16. I don’t know what he’d do about a downloadable version.