Coffee Break Collection 028 - Hobbies: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Coffee Break Collection 028 - Hobbies, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Coffee Break Collection 028 - Hobbies by Various. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Rita Boutros; William Allan Jones; Colleen McMahon; ashten999; BettyB; Michele Fry; Garth Burton; Lynne T; Nan Dodge; Patrick Wallace; Anita Sloma-Martinez This is the 28th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes' duration or less, suitable for short commutes and coffee breaks. The subject for this collection is "HOBBIES"... and the collection is full after 20 pieces have been submitted.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Coffee Break Collection 028 - Hobbies
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 2:44:12

Track guide

1. 01 - Amateur Radio Handbook: Introduction by A. Frederick Collins — 11:36
2. 02 - excerpt from The Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New by Walter Crane — 15:41
3. 03 - Birdie by Elizabeth Brightwen — 8:48
4. 04 - A-Birding Among the New Jersey Pines by Creswell J. Hunt — 5:55
5. 05 - Casey At The Bat, by Earnest Lawrence Thayer — 3:58
6. 06 - The Choice of a Boat by A.J. Kenealy — 8:36
7. 07 - Collecting Playing Cards by Charles William Taussig — 7:57
8. 08 - Coursing the Prongbuck by Theodore Roosevelt — 13:24
9. 09 - Feeding Birds in Summer and Winter by Elizabeth Brightwen — 8:17
10. 10 - Flying Kites by Anonymous, from "The Mastery of Air" — 6:09
11. 11 - The Gentle Art of Quilting by Clara B. Miller, article from Good Housekeeping magazine, August, 1896 — 5:32
12. 12 - Home Dressmaking from Armour's Monthly Cook Book October 1913 edited by Mary Jane McClure — 2:43
13. 13 - Mrs. Washington's Eternal Knitting by Fanny Fern — 4:28
14. 14 - Old English Embroidery by Emily Leigh Lowes — 7:05
15. 15 - Poultry for Beginners by Eric Wood — 13:33
16. 16 - The Hobby Rider by Jerome K. Jerome — 16:59
17. 17 - The Romance of Stamp Collecting by Edward J. Nankivell — 5:59
18. 18 - Stamp Collecting as a Pastime by Edward J. Nankivell (1848 - 1909) — 5:18
19. 19 - Tame Butterflies by Elizabeth Brightwen — 6:17
20. 20 - A Word about Golf by Charles William Taussig — 5:57

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