The Reader's Digest, Volume 1, Issue 2: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Reader's Digest, Volume 1, Issue 2, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Reader's Digest, Volume 1, Issue 2 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Twenty one articles each month from leading magazines - Each article of enduring value and interest, in condensed and compact form. A most convenient means of “keeping one’s information account open” —of reading stimulating articles on a wide variety of subjects. - Summary by From the title / front page

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Reader's Digest, Volume 1, Issue 2
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 32
• Listed recording duration: 3:45:10

Catalogue topics

• magazines
• newspaper
• articles
• reader's digest
• short non-fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 32

1. 01 - Remarkable Remarks — 4:43
2. 02 - Throwing Away Our Birthright — 9:06
3. 03 - A New South. The Boll-Weevil Era Condensed from The Atlantic Monthly by E. T. H. SHAFFER — 7:06
4. 04 - The Kiss Digested from The Forum by EMILE MALESPINE — 8:14
5. 05 - What Patricia Heard From Tokio Excerpts from Harper’s Magazine by FRANCES LITTLE — 8:07
6. 06 - What Makes People Laugh? Condensed from The World’s Work by CHARLIE CHAPLIN — 7:48
7. 07 - Scientific Progress of the Year 1921 Condensed from Scientific American — 7:25
8. 08 - The Truth About Vivisection Excerpts from Woman’s Home Companion by ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES — 10:28
9. 09 - Our Common Lot — 4:49
10. 10 - Adventure Excerpts from Good Housekeeping by KATHARINE EGGLESTON ROBERTS — 3:26
11. 11 - Fair Play for the World Summarized from The Outlook by KATHERINE MAYO — 6:53
12. 12 - A Princess in Exile Condensed from Pictorial Review by PRINCESS MANICH MOURADIAN — 6:42
13. 13 - The Woman Who Should Marry A Condensation from Good Housekeeping by ANNE SHANNON MONROE — 8:30
14. 14 - Have You Any Idea How You Sound When You Speak? by FRED C. KELLY IN McCLURE’S MAGAZINE — 6:09
15. 15 - Useful Points in Judging People — 7:20
16. 16 - Human Nature and Industrial Conflict — 6:01
17. 17 - Cities With Junior Government — 2:36
18. 18 - Theodore Roosevelt, the Father by HERMAN HAGEDORN — 7:17
19. 19 - What Interests People? — 7:29
20. 20 - The Farmer and His Troubles by HENRY C. WALLACE — 7:00
21. 21 - Music---How It Affects Your Health Condensed from Physical Culture by CHARLES D. ISAACSON — 6:53
22. 22 - Sold A condensation from The New Republic by ROBERT COLLYER WASHBURN — 4:50
23. 23 - The Wonders of the Firmament Excerpts from the National Geographic Magazine by WILLIAM JOSEPH SHOWALTER — 7:33
24. 24 - About Clothes — 8:29

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