Archive for June, 2009

LibriVox Community Podcast #104

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #104 hosted by Elli and Neeru.

Duration 50:56
We are talking about :
The one complaint of all librivoxateers- librivox is too addictive!
LV invading dreams and making imagination running wild!
How does the (non)addict – Lars Rolander manage to stay un-addicted?
How does a librivoxateer know he/she is addicted?
Test yourself [...]

LibriVox: Time, Love & Books

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

This is my presentation at the BookNetCanada Tech Forum in March, titled: LibriVox: Time, Love & Books. Sorry, there is 1 slide only, for you Powerpoint buffs.
I talk about audiobooks, time acquisition, LibriVox, Google, the link, and the digital archaeology of love. And Hinton, Alberta.

Link to the vid.

LibriVox Community Podcast #103

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #103 hosted by Epistomolus, with contributions from GreggMargarite and RuthieG.

Duration 19:22
Epistomolus makes some suggestions for those recording here at LibriVox … Gregg talks to recording folk also, about inhibitions and the benefits of easing out of them … and Ruth answers the generally very sensible question (to a non-LibriVoxer, [...]

The Dead

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

One of the reasons I started LibriVox, I think, was so that I could make an audio recording of “The Dead,” by James Joyce, from his collection Dubliners.
It is a story of such grace and skill; the build up slow and good-humoured and banal, but when that last section finally comes, it contains so much [...]

LibriVox Community Podcast #102

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #102 hosted by Lars Rolander.

Duration 29:53
Welcome to a cup of tea.
Reflections on making voices or characters in reading. Voice-memories from school- and radio-days.
An Idea for a Pod discussion.
Oh no ! . . . Oscar !!!
My first Librivox reading with short examples from Edith Nesbit:
“New Treasure seekers” (http://librivox.org/new-treasure-seekers-by-edith-nesbit/), here [...]