For our worldwide community, here are our New Year’s picks for your cold winter evenings or hot sunny days:
Old and New Year Ditties by Christina Rossetti
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Die Elixiere des Teufels by E.T.A. Hoffmann
The Man Who [...]

Just in time for your 2008/09 new year’s celebration, LibriVox has reach another great milestone, by cataloging our 2,000th book, Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. VI.
The rest of the series can be found here:
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
LibriVox [...]

We have selected a few seasonal recordings for your holiday enjoyment! :D
Christmas Short Works Collection 2008 (multilingual)
Christmas Short Works Collection 2007
Christmas Short Works Collection 2006
Nussknacker und Mausekönig
The Spirit of Christmas
A Christmas Carol
Santa Claus’s Partner
The Seven Poor Travellers
The Story of the Other Wise Man
The Birds’ Christmas Carol
I hope you enjoy them, and wish you all [...]

From a listener:
Dear everyone at LibriVox, we would like to thank each and every one of you for contributing to this wonderful library. Since my wife’s eye sight has been failing due to retinitis pigmentosa, she can not any more enjoy reading. It was opening a new world for her, when I discovered LibriVox this [...]

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #93 hosted by Cori Samuel.
Duration 17:48
This week’s show is on the theme of Getting Started! Karen Commins gives some excellent advice as a relative newcomer to LibriVox.
Earthcalling provides a musical interlude. Go Librivoxateers!
Hokuspokus, icyjumbo, Andy Minter, redaer and Great Plains discuss how they [...]

One of our prolific readers, John Greenman (The Voice of Mark Twain) received this email from a listener:

Hi John,
I have looked for your email in the past so that I could write and say that you have been blessed with the voice and the ability to speak with the rhythm that I have always thought [...]

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #92 hosted by Cori Samuel.

Duration 13:30
The latest releases at LibriVox can always be found via http://librivox.org/recently-cataloged/ and you can subscribe to the RSS feed from that page to have them sent immediately on release to your preferred news reader. Mentioned in this show were:
http://librivox.org/childhoods-favorites-and-fairy-stories-by-various/ (various readers, sample [...]

Dear all who may read this:
I would like to express my unceasing thanks to all those who volunteer
and read all the various books posted on your website. It has
inexpressibly enriched my life spent traveling. I love to read and
now I can do so incessantly :) As soon as I have some time [...]

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #91 hosted by Cori Samuel.

Duration 16:37
Hokuspokus, Gesine, redaer, catchpenny, Great Plains and hefyd answer the question: What was your favourite childhood book?
Hokuspokus mentions Märchen-Almanach auf das Jahr 1826 and Winnetou I while I talk a little about The Water-Babies … and if you are tantalised by catchpenny’s story, [...]

Cori writes:
Podcasts are fun. LibriVox podcasts are particularly fun. Please help me put the “Community” in “LibriVox Community Podcast” and consider contributing to one or more of the podcasts planned below.
11th December: LibriVox and the Daily Commute — travel tips for literate listeners
I’ve noticed people talking in the forums about MP3 players [...]