The famous Wired News story about LibriVox finally came out. Though, I think I was a bit optimistic, I don’t think we’ll complete 30 recordings by the end of the year … unless some keeners come on board today and jump right in!

This summer, Hugh McGuire was searching for free audio books online from his home in Montreal. He didn’t find very much.

So McGuire launched LibriVox by recruiting amateur readers to create audio files of works of literature. The project now includes almost two dozen complete works, including Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, Jack London’s The Call of the Wild and other classic novels and poems….

more from Wired.

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