And here’s Jean, with the next exciting installment of Call of the Wild.
mp3 audio file: Call of the Wild, Chapter 5-6
Written by: Jack London
Read by: Jean O’Sullivan
Bit rate: 64 kbps
File size: 29.6 MB
Call of the Wild LibriVox catalog page (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)
Next up (Friday): Miette brings us [...]

WiredNews.com has an article today about the dearth of women podcasters, and listeners. Only 15% of participants at the recent Portable Media Expo & Podcasting Conference were women, and some reports indicate that 97% (!) of podcast listeners are men.
Well, we’re happy to report that LibriVox has no such gender-parity problems. Although our forum member [...]

OK, here’s an experiment. We’ve posted a poem in the forum (by William Blake), and we’re asking everyone and anyone to record a version of it. We’ll leave the poem open for a week.
This is a good way to cut your teeth if you haven’t recorded anything yet, and want to try. It’s [...]

More thrilling tales of struggle and adventure today, with Buck learning the harsh lessons of life in a sled team.
mp3 audio file: Call of the Wild, Chapter 4
Written by: Jack London
Read by: Kristen McQuillin
Bit rate: 64 kbps
File size: 8.2 MB
Call of the Wild LibriVox catalog page (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire [...]

A few versions of In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae, in honour of Remembrance Day in Canada and Commonwealth, and Vetrans’ Day in the US, can be found here:
In Flanders Fields
Please feel free to record more versions and post them to the forum, we’ll catalog them later.

We had our first flakes of snow up here in Montreal yesterday. I don’t know what it’s like on the road between Dawson and White Horse, but I’ll wager it’s a sight colder there than it is here. Here’s Kristen with the next installment of the classic Jack London tale of adventure in the harsh [...]

Edward Champion does a nice run-down of what’s out there in the way of audiolit podcasts etc.
Literary podcast.

We’re always looking for new volunteers! Here’s some text you can post on your blog, or send to anyone you think might be interested in our project. In French and English… if anyone would like to make versions in other languages, please do so, and let us know! Thanks!
ENGLISH:

Volunteers wanted for LibriVox
LibriVox volunteers record [...]

This is our first mention, as far as I know, in an academic conference. By Gary Cziko of University of Illinois, in an article called:
Exploiting the Internet for Foreign Language Input: Resources, Tools and Techniques for Accessing Text and Audio, presented at an Teaching English conference in Taipei.
His wee text on LibriVox notes:

LibriVox: human [...]

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Get a hot mug of coffee (or hot chocolate), gather around the fire, and listen to Gord’s rendition of Chapter 2:
mp3 audio file: Call of the Wild, Chapter 2
Written by: Jack London
Read by: Gord Mackenzie
Bit rate: 64 kbps
File size: 10.8 MB
Call of the Wild [...]