Due to some scheduling conflicts, Andrew will be doing a future chapter, and I’ve recorded chapter 4. Hope you enjoy. One note, I’ve found exporting from audacity to mp3 at 40kbps is ideal; 32 kbps is too distorted, and 48 the file size goes way up. This one’s about 38 mins, and came in just […]

There’s an interview about LibriVox on the very well-produced Writing Show, a nice podcast by Paula B. We talk about public domain, audiobooks, joseph conrad, creative commons, and all sorts of stuff.
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well, fling93 delivers on chapter 3. I have not listened yet, but look forward to it. well done fling. now andrew, get busy!
here is the: file.

While we wait for fling93 to produce chapter 3 of the Secret Agent, I thought it would be worthwhile to record a more detailed background on the project (with “umms” edited out!).
Also, stay tuned for an interview about LibriVox with Paula B of the Writing Show.
And here’s the latest librivox podcast, a non-chapter explanation […]

so we’ve made it to playlistmag.org! and got hits galore on the site. Thanks for the nice write-up, mat.
Chapter 3 is on its way, as is a more detailed audio intro to the project.
In the mean time, I’ve had some problems with the ourmedia.org uploader (won’t work on the PC, won’t work on the mac) […]

Wonderful. Our first non-me volunteer comes through with a great rendition of chapter 2! Thanks to Neal, the podchef, who has a great weblog/podcast about cooking, food, life on a little island off the coast of Washington State, and general good living. Neal’s podcast was one of the first I listened to and really had […]

All right, we are ready to go. The weblog will be twiddled and tweaked over the next little while, but let’s get the ball rolling.
The innaugural LibriVox project book will be Joseph Conrad’s, The Secret Agent. We will use the e-text from the Gutenberg project, found here.
If you would like to record a chapter, […]

Here is a brief intro librivox podcast.
LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting? Here’s how it works (for now):

A book will be selected by LibriVox from the gutenberg project’s database of public domain […]