Archive for October, 2008

Proof-Listening

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Many people who are not comfortable recording for LibriVox help out in other ways. You might consider helping as a Proof-Listener, making sure that there are no technical problems with an audio file before it goes into the catalog. This includes repeats, badly edited sections, major stumbles, long silences and the like.
Because of the [...]

iPod & Philosophy

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Dylan Wittkower, LibriVox’s resident philosopher and reader of such gems as Schopenhauer’s Studies in Pessimism, and JS Mill’s Utilitarianism, has edited a new academic/popular text, The iPod and Philosophy, which includes some contributions from the LibriVox community.

LibriVox as Memorial

Monday, October 20th, 2008

We received this wonderfully touching email from Shanna H., whose father read for LibriVox:
I just wanted to let you know that the reader of Genesis in Hebrew is my father, Israel Radvinsky. He passed away last November and I miss him very much. I love that his voice is on the internet [...]

RIP: A Remixer’s Manifesto

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

Last night I went to the premier of my friend Brett’s movie: RIP: A Remixer’s Manifesto. It’s about copyright law, remixing, the public domain, culture, among other things, and it was really, really fantastic. If you get a chance, you should go see it.
The trailer focuses a bit too much on Girl Talk and his [...]

365 Days of LibriVox Audio

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

This past weekend, LibriVox reached an extraordinary milestone: our catalog now contains 365 days worth of free, public domain audiobooks. So, if you started to listen to the catalog today, spending 24-hours-a-day with your headphones, it would take you a full year to listen to our entire current catalog. By which time, you’ll have hours [...]

Literary Readings and What We Should Do About Them

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

I recently came upon an article decrying the awfulness of most literary readings, pointed at by Frank Wilson of Books, Inq. Frank thinks it’s not all literary readings that make ears bleed, but that North American (versus British, Irish and other) writers have little command of the oral medium, and thinks that’s the problem.
I have [...]

Librivox Community Podcast #89

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #89
Duration 35:07
Your host this week is Cori Samuel.
Bloopers contributed by various individuals with great senses of humour, via this thread.
sjmarky reviews the new Audio-Technica USB mic.
Ductapeguy introduces a new project using LibriVox files – the Narrative and Sound Project.
A Character Voices Special – Part [...]

Narrative and Sound Project

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Writes the Narrative and Sound Project:
I recently started a new web project [The Narrative and Sound Project], and your organization plays a very important part of it. The web project is about existing audiobooks and the idea of synthesizing them with music and sound. I have downloaded some of the audiobooks collection in your website [...]