Archive for the 'For Volunteers' Category
Friday, April 24th, 2009
Thanks to the good people at Archive.org, we are now beginning to add the new items that you have been waiting for! :D
A number of new works have already been cataloged thanks to our intrepid world-wide and sleep deprived MC volunteers, and they’ll continue to chip away at the backlog just as fast as they [...]
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
A new selection of recordings for you to try!
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
2009 is the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth. This is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal, read by various readers.
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Different characters (and readers) in [...]
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Here are this week’s ideas for listening:
A House-Boat on the Styx by John Kendrick Bangs
The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter
Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens
The Awful German Language by Mark Twain
The [...]
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
Every week or so, we will be selecting a number of recordings that we think you may enjoy, including classics and less well-known items.
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo
Howards End by E. M. Forster
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume
A Lady’s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 by [...]
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
For our worldwide community, here are our New Year’s picks for your cold winter evenings or hot sunny days:
Old and New Year Ditties by Christina Rossetti
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Die Elixiere des Teufels by E.T.A. Hoffmann
The Man Who [...]
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
We have selected a few seasonal recordings for your holiday enjoyment! :D
Christmas Short Works Collection 2008 (multilingual)
Christmas Short Works Collection 2007
Christmas Short Works Collection 2006
Nussknacker und Mausekönig
The Spirit of Christmas
A Christmas Carol
Santa Claus’s Partner
The Seven Poor Travellers
The Story of the Other Wise Man
The Birds’ Christmas Carol
I hope you enjoy them, and wish you all [...]
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Cori writes:
Podcasts are fun. LibriVox podcasts are particularly fun. Please help me put the “Community” in “LibriVox Community Podcast” and consider contributing to one or more of the podcasts planned below.
11th December: LibriVox and the Daily Commute — travel tips for literate listeners
I’ve noticed people talking in the forums about MP3 players [...]
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
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 [...]
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
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 [...]
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
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 [...]
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