May is a good time to fall in love – but not everything starting out on cloud #9 has a happy landing on the ground of reality, as 10 gems from our catalog show… Abelard and Heloise are a medieval couple famous for their Love Letters. Starting out as teacher and pupil, they became lovers, [...]

Mother Earth is celebrated wordwide on Earth Day, April 22nd. Have a great party with 10 gems from our catalogue! No feat(ure) of nature is so widely discussed, praised and condemmed as – the weather. J. G. M’Pherson explains all its details in his 1905 science book Meteorology. Mostly monotone weather is expected by Mary, [...]

On March 12th (online) and March 13th (printed edition), we were delighted to see our friend John Greenman figure in an article in the New York Times “Older adults start new chapters in their work lives”. It is great to see a picture of him with his recording set-up. However, the article failed to state [...]

On the equinox both day and night are 12 hours long. The following 10 gems from our catalog are concerned with differences – and equality. Photogen is a boy who never saw the moon. Nycteris is a girl who never saw the sun. Find out what happens when The Day Boy and the Night Girl [...]

It’s that time of the year again: the holidays are coming up! To ease your kid’s anxiety (and your own), try the following 10 gems from our catalog. There is nothing worse than having to stay at school during the holidays! The boring time expected by Gerald, James and Kathleen turns into a series of [...]

Welcome to the sixth and last leg of our World Tour, where we return to the cradle of mankind and make a roundtour with 10 gems from our catalog. Let’s start our journey in Algeria, where we meet Tartarin of Tarascon who is in search of nothing less than lions. Read the funny novel by [...]

Yesterday LibriVox welcomed the 6000th project to its catalogue. It’s The Princess Aline by Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916), read by Carolin Kaiser. You can find it on its catalogue page. This is less than a year since we announced the 5000th project. We continue to complete about 3 projects every day – about 44% of [...]

October 4th is World Animal Day. That’s a perfect excuse to get your critters an extra treat and celebrate with 10 gems from our catalog. Imagine taking a walk with your partner, and all of a sudden she turns into an animal. This is what happens to Richard Tebrick in David Garnett’s book Lady into [...]

Welcome to the fifth leg of our Librivox World Tour, where we are taking a trip through South America with 10 gems from our catalog. We are coming from the North into South America, just like the cocoa plant. Chocolate: or An Indian Drinke, our recording of the 17th century book by Antonio Colmenero des [...]

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #132 hosted by Algy Pug. Duration: 49min 54s The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám is one of the best loved and most widely translated collections of poetry in world literature. In this podcast, Librivox volunteers discuss different aspects of the Rubaiyat, and we share some excerpts [...]