A special happy birthday to Betsie, aka Thistlechick, a tireless LibriVox cataloger, moderator, and meta coordinator!

Interview about LibriVox on the cross-Canada CBC Radio show, Freestyle. CBC does not provide mp3s, but I recorded a pirate version (sorry it gets a bit staticky at the end): CBC Freestyle: LibriVox Interview.

Notes from the Underground

mp3 audio file: Notes from the Underground – Part 2, Chapter 5

Written by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Read by: Gord Mackenzie
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:06:39

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 2, Chapter 6, read by Gord Mackenzie.
Please [...]

Notes from the Underground

mp3 audio file: Notes from the Underground – Part 2, Chapter 4

Written by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Read by: Gord Mackenzie
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:24:12

Gutenberg e-text #600

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

Next up (Friday): Part 2, Chapter 5, read by Gord Mackenzie.
Please [...]

There’s a nice article on the NPR website about audiobooks & LibriVox, by Xeni Jardin, not sure if there’s a listenable audio spot too? Anyway, here’s the link: Amateur Audio Books Catch Fire on the Web.