Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #88 – 31st August 2008
Duration 25:00
Your host this week is Cori Samuel.
Quotes from A.P. Herbert and Dale Carnegie, read by kayray.
I quote Clay Shirky’s presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008 — watch the excellent video, or read his transcript.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, [...]

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #87 – 24th August 2008

Duration 23:01
Your multi-faceted host this week is Jerome.
Part Two of a Character Voices Special, featuring sjmarky (6:07) ceastman (11:30).
Stats (0:45) and a preview of recently-cataloged projects by chocoholic (1:56).
Librivox-themed Parody from chloey (5:17) and Trailer-style Promo from Jerome (14:58).
Jerome lists five favorite things [...]

Hello Everyone,
We host all our audio files with the wonderful archive.org. The last couple of days, we’ve been getting numerous reports of LirbiVox books being unavailable, unfindable, or undownloadable. We are looking into it with archive.org – but don’t panic! We’ve had similar issues in the past, and after some hiccups, we expect things will [...]

This week’s community podcast celebrates LibriVox’s third anniversary, and is presented by Cori Samuel. On 10th August, 2005, LibriVox was officially launched and a week later Hugh was podcasting the news to the world — excerpted at (01:05).
The first book worked on was Conrad’s The Secret Agent, and by the end of 2005, about [...]

Remixfight provides audio and asks people to remix and upload the resulting tracks. The most recent episode asks remixers to go to work on David Barnes’ LibriVox recording of the Universal Declaration of Human rights. Great stuff.
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Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast Show #85 – 1st August 2008
Duration 32:20
Your host this week is Cori Samuel.
A Character Voices Special – Part One … inspired by this thread. Mask O’Glass (00:49-05:55) and sjmarky (16:51-31:31) get the ball rolling with some thoughts on the subject. Mark even gives homework! :)
On [...]

Canadian literary/arts mag Descant has a great article on LibriVox, including this nice little para:

But “niche market” might be the wrong term for this site. It is not interested in creating a market. Nor is it interested in making a profit. There are no ads on the site and it proudly boasts a budget of [...]