Many people who are not comfortable recording for LibriVox help out in other ways. You might consider helping as a Proof-Listener, making sure that there are no technical problems with an audio file before it goes into the catalog. This includes repeats, badly edited sections, major stumbles, long silences and the like.
Because of the […]

THE LV WEEKLY SHORT STORY PODCAST
THE LV POETRY PODCAST
Just in time for your summer listening pleasure, two new LibriVox Podcasts are ready to jump into your iPods. A great way to sample the massive LV Catalog: weekly samples focusing specifically on poetry and short stories, updated every Saturday. But don’t worry, we won’t be running […]

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #58–MojoMove Tech Voxcast #5
This week’s hosts are Robert Scott and M.L. Cohen.
The theme for the show is: To Breathe or not to Breathe
( Breaths and lipsmacks etc…)
Past and present Librivox Community Podcast files can be found at Archive.org
Archived shownotes for the Librivox Community Podcast can be found […]

A day late, but if you’re up for some more Christmasy stuff, here’s a nice list of great stuff for you:

The wonderful 2006 Christmas Carol Collection
2006 Christmas Short Works Collection
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
Old Christmas Carol, by Washington Irving
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit From St. Nicholas), by Clement C. Moore

Have a wonderful […]

Jesse Willis over at SFF Audio offers up a challenge to audiobook makers: record some more public domain scifi. They’ve got a great list of Books that Ought to Be Recorded, including:

The Secret Of The Ninth Planet by Donald A. Wollheim
The Sky Is Falling by Lester Del Rey
Operation: Outer Space by Murray Leinster
The Door Through […]

Solo read by Rebecca.
Collaborative read by Stephan Möbius, Chris Goringe, Peter Yearsley, Joseph Morris, Kara Shallenberg, Mike Shapiro, Tony Gray, Kristin Luoma, Chip, Kathleen (Kathy) P. King, and Jean Crevier.
NOTE: “War of the Worlds” is under copyright until 2016 in the UK and EU. If you are in these juristictions, then downloading the LibriVox audio […]

The month of November is upon us, and with it, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month. During nanowrimo, writers all over the world try to write a novel. In a month.
LibriVox has joined in the effort, but in our own special way: we’re doing a collaborative novel, with volunteers contributing a day of writing, or more. […]

Read by Barbara Bear and Mama Bear.
You haven’t fully experienced the diversity of LibriVox until you have listened to some of the recordings by our younger readers. This recording is a duet by mother and daughter reading one of the classic children’s stories. These two readers bring the book to life together.
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Read by Denny Sayers.
Denny’s reading of “Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children” is a great introduction to some of our children’s literature at LibriVox. He does a great job drawing the listener into the story. This classic story has been adapted for children and Denny’s love of children comes through in how he tells the […]

Read by Kristin LeMoine (Luoma).
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad has been interperted many different ways since its publication in 1899. It has been the inspiration for T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocolypse Now. Given the varying reactions to the text, this reading by Kristin avoids the potential pitfalls of over-interpertation, […]