Archive for April, 2009

More ideas for listening

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim.
Four women leave dreary post-WWI London for a month in an Italian castle. Highly recommended by listeners. Read by Diana Kiesners.
Multilingual Poetry Collection 004.
Poems in Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Portuguese, Russian and Turkish.
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens.
A wonderful recording of one of Dickens’ masterpieces. [...]

New additions to the catalog

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Thanks to the good people at Archive.org, we are now beginning to add the new items that you have been waiting for! :D
A number of new works have already been cataloged thanks to our intrepid world-wide and sleep deprived MC volunteers, and they’ll continue to chip away at the backlog just as fast as they [...]

LibriVox Community Podcast #101

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #101 hosted by Cori Samuel.

Duration 6:04
Topic: Why nothing’s been catalogued for a while :O
Voices: Peter Yearsley and Anna Simon.
Quote from Douglas Adams (the Brit radio play version, though it’s likely to be in the HHGTTG book too.)
Recently reviewed books at archive.org
Our Staff Picks thread – please also recommend [...]

Project cataloging temporarily delayed

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Eager listeners may have noticed we haven’t put much new in the catalog recently. Fear not! The mighty armies of LibriVoxateers are still producing hours of audio daily.
However, the Internet Archive (the folks who host LibriVox’s files) are making some changes to the way audio files are derived and presented. Once the dust settles at [...]

LibriVox Community Podcast #100

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #100 hosted by Cori Samuel and Sean McGaughey.

Duration 22:16

Topic: I think the podcast number tells the story. :D
Voices: You’ll hear lots, too many to name individually (though if you really need to know, please post and we’ll track’em down for you.)
Music: Mostly original compositions, digitaltoast used a royalty-free music-bed, [...]

New staff picks

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

A new selection of recordings for you to try!
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
2009 is the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth. This is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal, read by various readers.
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Different characters (and readers) in [...]