Archive for July, 2011

Happy Birthday Librivox !

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

Librivox’ 6th Birthday is the perfect opportunity to celebrate the most important part of it: Our readers! And that it’s all about equality on here is proven by the fact that our top 10 praised readers during the last year are 5 men and 5 women.
Ladies first:
Elizabeth Klett, professor of literature, expert knitter and drama [...]

Thoughts of a Reader

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

One of our newer readers writes in the forum:

On the nature of audio books and “reading”
I am fairly new to the world of audio books and very new to reading within Librivox. The bother of keeping track of stacks of CDs, which might scratch if not handled with care, and the equipment one might have [...]

Sorry – the forum is down – and back up!

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

From 08:40 GMT July 5th: Regrettably, it appears that the secure server where the forum lives is currently down again.
We will get it functioning again as soon as possible, and apologise for the inconvenience.
The catalogue server and downloads are unaffected.
EDITED TO ADD: Apologies for the latest outage, which was caused by a problem related [...]