Old Christmas - 4: Christmas Day

mp3 audio file: Old Christmas - 4: Stagecoach

Written by: Washington Irving

Read by: Mark Bradford
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:28:49

Gutenberg e-text #1850

OpenLibrary illustrated edition

LibriVox Catalog Page: Old Christmas (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Friday): Old Christmas 5: Christmas Dinner, by Mark Bradford.
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Our very own Paula has a great interview on her equally great podcast, the writing show, with National Novel Writing Month (nanowrimo) survivor, J Wynia.
Check Paula’s interview: here.

Old Christmas - 3: Christmas Eve

mp3 audio file: Old Christmas - 2: Stagecoach

Written by: Washington Irving

Read by: Kristen McQuillin

Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:21:05

Gutenberg e-text #1850

OpenLibrary illustrated edition

LibriVox Catalog Page: Old Christmas (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Tuesday): Old Christmas 4: Christmas Day, by Mark Bradford.
Please send us an […]

As of this morning, we’ve got 202 listed in the members section of our forum!

Old Christmas - 2: Stagecoach

mp3 audio file: Old Christmas - 2: Stagecoach

Written by: Washington Irving

Read by: Kara the Catalog Queen

Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:18:27

Gutenberg e-text #1850

OpenLibrary illustrated edition

LibriVox Catalog Page: Old Christmas (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Tuesday): Old Christmas 3: Christmas Eve, by Kristen McQuillin.
Please send us […]

The Christmas season is upon us, so in the seasonal spirit we’ll be doing some Christmas-y books. Dickens will be next, but we’re starting with Old Christmas by Washington Irving. This is one of the books in the OpenLibrary collection, see the beautifulillustrated version here - though we’ll still link to Project Gutenberg for the […]

A Noiseless Patient Spider, by Walt Whitman
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:
A Noiseless Patient Spider, by Walt Whitman
A noiseless patient […]

I’m not quite sure what blueyonder is — it seems to be the content page for telwest, a UK broadband supplier — but anyway it’s a serious site, and in this article they give their podcast recommendations. And what are those recommendations? BBC, CBC, NPR, Guardian Unlimited … and LibriVox! Wow. That’s some good […]

Here at LibriVox, we really like a few things:

podcasting

books

librivox volunteers

Well, just in time for christmas (or chanukah, or the holidays) you can support all three. Neal Foley, aka the Podchef, who puts out a great podcast about food, cooking and food politics, and one of the very first LibriVox volunteers has just published a […]

Random link from the world of books and blogs: bookninja.com