Today, March 25 2007, is the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. In honor of this event, LibriVox volunteer CarlManchester organized a collaborative recording of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano:
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah [...]

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Volunteer Sean McKinley has recorded The Collected Works of Saint Patrick for us:
St. Patrick’s Breastplate – This prayer is attributed to St. Patrick and his diciples. It is written with some celtic pagan elements, but is definitely a Christian prayer asking God for protection through daily life.
A Letter to the [...]

LibriVox is a cross-cultural, multi-lingual, geographically dispersed project; you could almost call us the United Nations of volunteer-based free public domain audio literature projects. So in order to celebrate United Nations Day (Oct 24), we just released the:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Read in 21 languages including Korean, Afrikaans, and Waloon.
And Boing Boing likes it!

And here is the last chapter of RLS’s wonderful pirate saga, Treasure Island. We hope you enjoyed it! Coming up next: Some Jane Austen (I think?)…But first, here’s TI:
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson

mp3 audio file: Treasure Island, Chapter 34

Written by: Robert Louis Stevenson

Read by: Randy Phillips
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:12:50
Gutenberg e-text #120

LibriVox [...]

Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson

mp3 audio file: Treasure Island, Chapter 33

Written by: Robert Louis Stevenson

Read by: Randy Phillips
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:12:50
Gutenberg e-text #120

LibriVox Catalog Page: Treasure Island (for Ogg Vorbis, mp3 128kb & a zip of the entire book)

Next up: Treasure Island, Chapter 33 read by Randy Phillips .

Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson

mp3 audio file: Treasure Island, Chapter 32

Written by: Robert Louis Stevenson

Read by: Jean O’Sullivan
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:12:28
Gutenberg e-text #120

LibriVox Catalog Page: Treasure Island (for Ogg Vorbis, mp3 128kb & a zip of the entire book)

Next up: Treasure Island, Chapter 33 read by Randy Phillips.

Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson

mp3 audio file: Treasure Island, Chapter 30

Written by: Robert Louis Stevenson

Read by: Jean O’Sullivan
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:14:31
Gutenberg e-text #120

LibriVox Catalog Page: Treasure Island (for Ogg Vorbis, mp3 128kb & a zip of the entire book)

Next up: Treasure Island, Chapter 32 read by Jean O’Sullivan.

Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson

mp3 audio file: Treasure Island, Chapter 30

Written by: Robert Louis Stevenson

Read by: Randy Phillips
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:14:43
Gutenberg e-text #120

LibriVox Catalog Page: Treasure Island (for Ogg Vorbis, mp3 128kb & a zip of the entire book)

Next up: Treasure Island, Chapter 31 read by Jean O’Sullivan.

Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson

mp3 audio file: Treasure Island, Chapter 29

Written by: Robert Louis Stevenson

Read by: Randy Phillips
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:13:59
Gutenberg e-text #120

LibriVox Catalog Page: Treasure Island (for Ogg Vorbis, mp3 128kb & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Friday): Treasure Island, Chapter 30 read by Randy Phillips.

Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson

mp3 audio file: Treasure Island, Chapter 28

Written by: Robert Louis Stevenson

Read by: Alex Foster
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:15:24
Gutenberg e-text #120

LibriVox Catalog Page: Treasure Island (for Ogg Vorbis, mp3 128kb & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Wednesday): Treasure Island, Chapter 29 read by Randy Phillips.