To make LibriVox simpler and clearer to navigate, we’ve reorganised and redesigned the front page. With the new big buttons and text, visitors shouldn’t have any trouble figuring out how to listen to a book or how to volunteer to read a chapter or two! News and new releases are easily accessible for those who [...]

In the early days of LibriVox, there were lots of mysterious hits from Italy … turns out a few big blogs in Italy had posted about us. There were some comments there saying: too bad there’s no Italian audio on librivox. I wrote (thanks google translator!) inviting them to join us in Italian. We had [...]

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Winter’s coming — at least up in Canada — so we thought a little taste of the North would be appropriate for our next podcast. A tale of adventure in the cold is next, Jack London’s classic Call of the Wild. Buck, a patrician [...]

So it’s NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth … 60,000 (!!!) participants this year, typing away, trying to write a novel in a month! Wow.
Firstly, lets bask in the glory of such a wonderful project, getting 60,000 people to at least try to write a novel in a month.
Then, let’s consider how many books could be [...]

Crack out the champagne, LibriVox completes its innaugural podcast series, of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, with today’s fantastic reading by Paula B, from the Writing Show. To all of you who have contributed so far in making LibriVox happen, a big thank you…And to all of you who have not yet volunteered to make [...]

we’re nearing the end of our first book … well done LibriVox volunteers. For today’s installment, Derek Elliot inspires listeners with his rendition of:
File: The Secret Agent, Chapter 12
Written by: Joseph Conrad
Read by: Derek Elliot
Time:
Bit rate: 64 kbps
File size: 34.1 MB
Internet Archive page (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)
Next up: Chapter [...]

I reported earlier on the LibriVox involvement in the launch of the Open Library, and promised an audio clip. So here it is. This is Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive (where LibriVox hosts audio files), the big force behind the OpenLibrary project. Here he is showing off — to a crowd of 600 [...]