Archive for October, 2005

LibriVox, archive.org, yahoo & OCA

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

Well, here’s some more exciting stuff. We’ve been in contact with the Internet Archive to let them know about LibriVox. Brewster Kahle (listen to his inspiring talk, Universal Access to All Human Knowledge), the founder of the Archive likes LibriVox, has invited us to participate in an event with them.
Along with Yahoo and a […]

BBC 6 makes a mention…

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

We were mentioned today on BBC 6, Breakfast Show, Tech Tuesdays with Dave Green … I don’t know if we were on the audio version, but we got a tip on their site:
There’s no denying that books are convenient, but you can also catch up on a few literary classics while doing other things (like […]

Old Books & New Books! Oct 05

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

Firstly, I urge the feet draggers on our older official selections (The Secret Agent, Notes from the Underground, Frankenstein, Childhood, Call of the Wild, and Psmith in the City) to get your chapters done. We will be participating in an event with the Internet Archive on October 25, and it would be great to have […]

The Secret Agent, Chapter 8

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

The next installment is in, another thrilling reading, this time by Mitchell Dwyer, who has a great literary podcast, the Literate Loser (now in the process of doing Mark Twain’s Puddinhead Wilson). In any case, here it is:
File: The Secret Agent, Chapter 8Written by: Joseph ConradRead by: Mitchell Dwyer, from Literate LoserTime:Bit rate: 64 kbpsFile […]

Frankenstein: volunteer needed!

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

We need a pinch-hitter to read Chapters 9-10 of Frankenstein (Jeff’s schedule got busier than expected). So if anyone would like to record 9-10, please let us know, by posting on the LibriVox forum.
Let’s jump in and demonstrate the advantages of the LibriVox system!
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