What do you like most about LibriVox?

Posted on July 30, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: 13 Comments on What do you like most about LibriVox?

LibriVox’s Third Anniversary is coming up, and we’re putting together a celebratory community podcast to be released on the 7th August.

We want to hear from our listeners … what you think the best things about LibriVox are. You could say something about a special recording you’ve listened to. Maybe a book that’s meant a lot to a family member or friend. What you’ve been most surprised to find here in an audio format! If you’re a regular podcast/forum follower, you’ll know how much we’ve grown this year — so, which stats have amazed you the most, as we’ve grown and grown? You could even tell us what public domain texts you’d most like to see started — and finished!

Send any positive comments you like! I’d be happy to receive MP3s (please contact me for details on how to get them to me, or if you respond in your own podcast, let me know if I can excerpt it, with appropriate attribution, in ours.) I’d also love to hear from people in writing, either by PM in the forums, by email (see link below my forum posts), or just add a comment below this post. As a big part of our celebration will be a community podcast, please note that anything sent will be considered in the public domain, because I’d really like to use it within the podcast, with the same attribution that we give all our authors (who include Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Voltaire and Die Gebrüder Grimm).

Hope to hear from you soon! Deadline is noon on the 5th August (to give me editing time. Click the link to check that time in other parts of the world.)

— Cori

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13 comments

  1. JanniStewart says:

    It allows those who are house-bound-disabled to volunteer and make a difference in someone’s life–to give back what has so graciously been given to them, and to be in touch with others outside their shut-in life, their own four walls.

  2. Carolyn says:

    LibriVox recordings are now a standard part of our family roadtrips. Also our 9 year old has started listening recordings before bed every night on his MP3. The supply of classic literature in audio format is an amazing gift.

  3. hugh says:

    i use LV recordings on long roadtrips in the car. just enjoyed laurie anne’s hound of the baskervilles on a roadtrip thru ontario.

  4. E says:

    Librivox has allowed me to “read” classics during hours of manual labor, i.e. baking bread, washing dishes, cleaning the house, working in the garden, and more. In addition, Librivox has enabled me to “read” books which I would otherwise not read in a hard-copy form. I first encountered Librivox a few months after it began – that was when all of the recordings were on one long page. The growth of the Librivox project has been amazing. Thank you.

  5. Rosie says:

    librivox lets me become part of books i love. it’s like when you read a really amazing book and you want to just tell someone how perfect and wonderful and changing it is, but you can’t find anyone to listen–you get to be that book, and those people come looking for the enlightenment. it feels awfully good. it’s conjugation in a way that makes one feel special and secret and vastly important.

  6. bigbuckhunter says:

    I really like how everybody is so friendly, and how there is no negative feedback. There are a lot of people just waiting to help, ready to answer all your questions. I enjoy bieng a part of this project. Thank you.

  7. Landii says:

    It’s non-commercial. It’s friendly. It’s literature. And it’s free! What more would I want? I listen to it at work and at home, and I’ve recently started recording a chapter or two myself. It’s not a website, it’s a lifestyle. In fact, it’s an obsession!

  8. Librivox has saved me from my boring repetitive job (which I love) by introducing me to literary classics that I was never introduced to due to my limited institutionalized American education. I would have never read Tolstoy’ War and Peace or Gibbon’s History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on my own but now enjoy these classics each day (and await with abated breath for the completion of these monstrous undertakings by the Librivox volunteers). Many heartfelt thanks to you and your readers and keep up the great work!

  9. Ylre says:

    I can finally catch up on my reading journey even though my hands are busy. I’ve picked up the habit again without compromising my daily existence (chores, work and school). It has been a great source of pleasure and learning for us all. I’m back on the “reading world” and hopefully not only for myself. Can’t help but to echo this to other people, reader or non-reader. It would greatly encourage the “youngs” and the “olds” to get in to books. Not many people in my area have a good source of classic lits available freely for us, so this is a great step. Big THANKS to everyone in the project, specially the ones who conceptualized it. Kudos!

  10. Shaun C says:

    I personally love Librivox and aplaud all of you. I it wasn’t for you guys, I’d probably have been zoning out at my volenteer work program I just got home from two weeks ago. I read all of Tarzan while I was there; I even started getting in to the Strange Pages From Family Papers book. That stuff is cool. Anyways, what with me being blind and having a love of reading, I am hoping to contribute sometime in the future. One of the books I’d like to see added is Jules Verne’s “Off On A Comit.” That has to be one of my fav Verne books.

  11. LibriVox Admin Team says:

    Cori writes: All the posts which appear above are included in this week’s podcast, now online at:

    http://librivox.org/2008/08/08/librivox-community-podcast-86-our-3rd-anniversary/

    … along with comments from other listeners, LV-readers and with many other bits thrown in for good measure. Thankyou ALL for contributing!

  12. Estella Cos says:

    I like voices and books and it gives a very special feeling that all those volunteers spend hours and hours for me and all the other users to read their favourite or important books/poems for us. I have HEARD now some older books that I was never gonna read myself and that is wonderfull. So thanks and what a marvelous idea to start something like LIBRIVOX…and for the culture in general is is very good that the publishing-rights on books expire!

  13. Andy Zaliwski says:

    Great Idea, LibriVox. I listen to audio files almost daily. With me, it is a way of keeping in touch with English. I often visit the site to see the new arrivals. I liked specially the following recordings: Robinson Crusoe , The Mysterious Island and The Thirty-nine Steps. Great novels, a real pleasure listening. I give thanks to all the readers of the LibriVox.

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