Schools and universities have started again after summer. Why not use 10 gems of our catalogue to catch up on the vast field of science?
Now…where to start… Well, probably at the beginning: Charles Darwin waited over 10 years before publishing his results on evolution, and his seminal work applying it to humans The Descent of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We still have a number of areas where work is ongoing, and users may notice things that are not working properly yet. There is a lot of work still to do and it is going to take some time to get everything functioning as we would wish. Security and usability are our top priorities.
In the [...]

We are pleased to report that the catalogue is now available again. It has been extensively tested, but please report any minor hiccups on the Error Reports forum.
As Fanny Kemble wrote:
Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin,
But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.
Thank you for your patience.

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #115 hosted by Lars Rolander.

Duration: 17min 42s.
Have you ever considered joining LibriVox and become a real “Librivoxer”? If so, what do you need if you want to become a reader? What else can you do, and how do you go about it?
In this podcast, Lars Rolander gives some of his [...]

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #114 hosted by Lucy Perry.

Duration: 1hr 47min
With contributions from hugh, kayray, Algy Pug, Availle, RuthieG, Rowland, ExEmGe, HokusPokus, neerajanagarajan, neckertb, Nicholas19, gloriana, Cori, tis, Gesine, annise, Jonathan Awesome, KathrynD, rf, Great Plains, Starlite, aradlaw, TriciaG, russiandoll, wdcallahan and Claire — along with a host of other LibriVox Voices. Sound [...]

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #113 with Gesine.

Duration: 25:04
In Community Podcast 113, Gesine explains the ins and outs of the new ‘Thank a reader’ feature on the LibriVox website. Clicking on the link in the right-hand sidebar, listeners can send their thanks to a designated email address, and an admin posts the messages in a [...]

In honour of Anzac Day, LibriVox proudly presents Five Months at Anzac by Joseph Lievesley Beeston: A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force from his leaving Australia December 1914 till his evacuation due to illness after 5 months at Gallipoli. Read by Annise to remember those [...]