Archive for February, 2008

Toronto Star on LibriVox

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Michael Geist has an article in the Toronto Star about book 2.0 projects. The two projects cited are Evan Prodromou’s Wikitravel Press, and LibriVox.
About LibriVox, he says:
Canadians are also playing a leading role in reshaping the creation of audiobooks. Hugh McGuire, a Montreal-based writer and Web developer, established LibriVox in August 2005. The site is […]

Librivox Community Podcast #72

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #72
Duration 13:47
Your slightly-snuffly host this week is Cori Samuel.
1: LeonMire tells us about the ten most recent LibriVox releases.
2: Earthcalling goes a-roaming. Here’s the link you’ll need once you’ve listened!
3: A little numbers comparison … Hugh and Paula talking in late […]

Librivox Community Podcast #71

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #71
Duration - 11:11
Your invisible friend and host this week is Cori Samuel.
How Do I Love LibriVox? Let Me Count The Ways.
Voices in order of appearance:
Larysa Jaworski (from Multilingual Poetry Vol. 2), various readers of Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and original contributions […]

LibriVox Audiobook New Release Samples

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

The former LibriVox New Releases Podcast
now takes on a new easy-to-use form!
Individual samples of select LibriVox audiobooks
will now appear soon after a project is released, in
compact form: 2-3 minutes each! Convenient to all!
Think of all the new ways you can use them!
The first batch of samples, from December 2007.
is now available by going directly to […]

Librivox Community Podcast #70

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #70
Duration 13:42
Your host this week is Cori Samuel. Your podcast theme … adverts! Advertising newly-started LibriVox projects, a forum thread and an actual Finished Product.
Intro and closing music from Emery’s Musicalle, in the public domain at archive.org.
Applause from pdsounds.org.
1. Shurtagal: The Montessori Method by Maria […]

Free Listens

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Free Listens is a blog dedicated to reviewing free audiobooks (including some LibriVox books), with new posts weekly. We particularly like the sensible/honest review policies:

* Solo recordings - I tend to review recordings made by one person, rather than the chapter-per-person organization of the Librivox group recordings. I do this for two reasons: 1) I […]