Archive for November, 2005

Psmith in the City - Chapters 1-3

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

This week, it’s P.G. Wodehouse. From wikipedia:
Described by Sean O’Casey as “English literature’s performing flea”, Wodehouse was an acknowledged master of English prose admired both by contemporaries like Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers like Salman Rushdie, Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett.
Best-known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels […]

Distributed Proofreaders

Monday, November 21st, 2005

LibriVox fans, volunteers and curious tourists may like to visit Distributed Proofreaders and offer their services there, or just send them a note of thanks. This group does much of the background work that has allowed LibriVox to exist - they are the proofreaders who get gutenberg.org e-texts into shap to publish (oh that should […]

The Raven - by Edgar Allan Poe

Monday, November 21st, 2005

We’ve finished our podcast of “Call of the Wild,” and will be starting “Psmith in the City” tomorrow.
And note that we’ll be moving to a podcast every day of the week, Monday-Friday (mostly for longer works), and Sundays will be a random pick of a reader from the weekly poem project.
But today […]

Repeat After Us!

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

From the “nothing new under the sun” department, I just found RepeatAfterUs.com. Says the about:
RepeatAfterUs.com was founded by Ellie Wen during her sophomore year at Harvard-Westlake High School in California. While volunteering at Las Familias del Pueblo, a community center in downtown Los Angeles, Ellie saw individuals struggling with pronunciation in an English as a […]

Voice of the Ancient Bard, by William Blake

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Last week we tried an experiment, that we’ll continue: every week someone will choose a public domain poem (not too long) and post it on the forum under Readers Wanted/Weekly Poetry, and everyone is encouraged to record a version of it.
This past week we chose:
Voice of the Ancient Bard, by William Blake

Youth of […]

LibriVox flickr badge

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

We now have a flickr badge … scroll down and look at the photos to the right. Any public photos tagged “librivox” on flickr will turn up here … so take a pic of your studio, some old books we’re doing, libraries … anything you like, and you’ll see it there eventually.
Oh if you don’t […]

Australia Radio tips LibriVox

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

We appear to have made it to the radio* airwaves in Australia, can anyone (chris?) confirm whether we were released from the internet for general consumption? In any case, we are listed on the net at ABC Radio National’s: WebWatch (with Debbie Spillane and Alex Zaharov-Reutt), along with the Church Sign Generator, which is […]

Call of the Wild - Chapter 7

Friday, November 18th, 2005

And now … for the thrilling conclusion of Jack London’s Call of the Wild. Read by the incomparable Miette, here is Chapter 7, the final chapter of Buck’s adventure.
mp3 audio file: Call of the Wild, Chapter 7
Written by: Jack London
Read by: Miette
Bit rate: 64 kbps
File size: 22.1 MB
Call of the Wild LibriVox catalog page (for […]

We have 100 registered users…

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

…on the LibriVox Forum.
Next up: 100 books in the LibriVox catalog!

will podcasting go corporate?

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

Bicylcemark and Tim from RadioClash have a nice discussion here about podcasting and commericalism…
We at LibriVox are happy to report that we are doggedly committed to being uncommercial, noncorporate, and putting our families into the poorhouse by spending all our time working on a totally volunteer, project, out of the love of literature and the […]