One of LibriVox’s early volunteers, Paula B of the great podcast, the Writing Show, has a fantastic interview with four other LibriVoxers (Kara-San Diego, Kristen-Tokyo, Chris-Sydney, and Hugh-Montreal, and Paual in … LA?). All done real-time on Skype.
Great work Paula!
Happy new year all…

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit from St. Nicholas), by Clement C. Moore
Another installment of our Weekly Poetry Project: every week someone chooses a public domain poem (not too long) and posts it on the forum under Readers Wanted/Weekly Poetry. Everyone is encouraged to record a version of it.
This past week we chose:
‘Twas the [...]

PCWorld’s Angela Gunn talks about LibriVox in the December 16 episode of Digital Duo, watch the video here.

The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry
Here’s a little Christmas treat for you — our new catalog-helper Betsie’s reading of The Gift of the Magi. Better have a hankie handy!
The Gift of the Magi — 64kbps mp3

A Christmas Carol- Stave V

mp3 audio file: A Christmas Carol – Stave V

Written by: Charles Dickens

Read by: Bill Stackpole
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:18:46

Gutenberg e-text #46

LibriVox Catalog Page: A Christmas Carol (for Ogg Vorbis, mp3 128kb & a zip of the entire book)

Next up: “The Night Before Christmas”, on Dec 24, and then a little holiday. [...]

The great vidcast out of Toronto, commandN feature librivox as a webpick in their holiday episode, the last of 2005. see it here.

So for the past several weeks, we’ve been adding about 25-ish new volunteers to the forum a week. Then last week, an article came out in wired.com, and then got picked up elsewhere, including the German site heise online.
Well, the result was 85 new volunteers this week, and a hectic, busy time trying to manage [...]

A Christmas Carol- Stave IV

mp3 audio file: A Christmas Carol – Stave IV

Written by: Charles Dickens

Read by: Hugh McGuire
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:42:o9

Gutenberg e-text #46

LibriVox Catalog Page: A Christmas Carol (for Ogg Vorbis, mp3 128kb & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Friday): A Christmas Carol, Stave V, read by Bill Stackpole.
Please send us [...]

A Christmas Carol- Stave III

mp3 audio file: A Christmas Carol – Stave III

Written by: Charles Dickens

Read by: Kristen McQuillin
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:44:34

Gutenberg e-text #46

LibriVox Catalog Page: A Christmas Carol (for Ogg Vorbis, mp3 128kb & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Wednesday): A Christmas Carol, Stave IV, read by Hugh McGuire.
Please send us [...]

it’s nice that we are starting to get emails like this:

Just wanted to take the time to say, Thank You.
I’ve now finished several good books I’ve always wanted to read, by
simply driving to work or lying down to sleep.