Archive for September, 2011

Problems with newly catalogued items

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Hello, everybody! We have another problem, I’m afraid. Plus ça change, eh? ;)
Further parts of the LibriVox site were migrated last night to a new server, and although it has restored the list of New Releases on the home page, it has unfortunately broken the catalogue pages of some of our new(ish)ly catalogued audiobooks.
If [...]

RIP Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

Very sad news: Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg (where most LibriVox texts come from), and the inventor of the ebook died this week.
Thank you for all you did, Michael.
Here is his obituary.

Different Tongues

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

September 26 is the “European Day of Languages” to promote language learning. We at librivox do that all-year-round with recordings in more than 30 different languages. And we’ll present the following 10 gems from our non-english catalog:
The Ancient Greeks are considered the fathers of Western culture, and at that time, Greek was indeed the lingua [...]