Archive for January, 2006

Notes from the Underground – Part 1, Chapter 4

Monday, January 9th, 2006

Notes from the Underground

mp3 audio file: Notes from the Underground – Part 1, Chapter 4

Written by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Read by: Randy Phillips
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:04:19

Gutenberg e-text #600

LibriVox Catalog Page: Notes from the Underground (for Ogg Vorbis, mp3 128kb & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Wednesday): Part 1, Chapter 5, read by Randy Phillips.
Please [...]

Notes from the Underground – Part 1, Chapter 3

Friday, January 6th, 2006

Notes from the Underground

mp3 audio file: Notes from the Underground – Part 1, Chapter 3

Written by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Read by: Greg Schwartz
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:10:02

Gutenberg e-text #600

LibriVox Catalog Page: Notes from the Underground (for Ogg Vorbis, mp3 128kb & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Monday): Part 1, Chapter 4, read by Randy Phillips.
Please [...]

New Completed Books

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

We’ve had some great additions to the catalog recently:

Joy Chan read Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress

Steve Andersen brought Twain to life with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

And we released LibriVox Short Poetry Collection I, selected by LibriVox volunteers.

We’ve got another one in the catalog queue (hint: it’s Finnish!)

librivox frappr map

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

I’m not sure what frappr means, but if you’d like to put your virtual push-pin on the librivox map, visit:
http://www.frappr.com/librivoxvolunteers

Verb: Audio Literary Magazine

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Verb.org is an exciting new literary journal: it’s audio! Writers read their own work. There’s music, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. Wonderful. It’s a CD subscription, but they also have a weekly podcast with excerpts.
It’s funny, LibriVox gets the occasional comment: Why listen to books? You should read them.
But the history of story-telling is deeply-rooted in [...]

Notes from the Underground – Part 1, Chapter 2

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Notes from the Underground

mp3 audio file: Notes from the Underground – Part 1, Chapter 2

Written by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Read by: Greg Schwartz
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:08:00

Gutenberg e-text #600

LibriVox Catalog Page: Notes from the Underground (for Ogg Vorbis, mp3 128kb & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Wednesday): Part 1, Chapter 3, read by Greg.
Please send [...]

writingshow – wikipedia etc.

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

Paula, LibriVox volunteer, moderator, and a prolific podcaster, interviews Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia, over at the Writing Show.
While you’re there, you should listen to the great 5-way interview with some LibriVoxers (including me).
And if you want to listen to more librivox stuff, check out Sturgeon’s Law#17, by another librivox volunteer, rfrancis with special guest squiddhartha. [...]

LibriVox: 2006

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

So the idea was to have a little holiday for LibriVox, a break from December 26 to Jan 2, to let some of the busy volunteers, admins, and moderators have a breather from all the energies we (gladly) put into LibriVox, which for many, has become a labour of love. An addictive, wonderful, exciting, all-day-consuming, [...]

Notes from the Underground – Part 1, Chapter 1

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

Our “holiday” period was one of the busiest yet, but we’re back podcasting now. We’ve decided to podcast three times a week (plus once a week for poetry) instead of every day – but if you would really prefer every day, let us know and we’ll consider it. Anyway, we’re kicking off the new [...]