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blogdesk: LibriVox & ebay

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Our friends at SFF Audio have a nice summary of a discussion that comes up once in a while, ebayers selling LibriVox recordings:
I really like the attitude of the people over on LibriVox.org. In one thread on the LibriVox forums a first time poster makes note that ‘LibriVox titles are being sold on eBay for […]

LibriVox & the Stockholm Challenge

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

LibriVox is a finalist in the Stockholm Challenge, an award & conference put on by the City of Stockholm, which:
…features a six category Award for ICT for Development projects. ICT stands for Information and Communication Technologies and the best projects will win the prestigious Stockholm Challenge trophies and receive a 5.000 Euro stipend… An extended […]

blogdesk: nice comment

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Every once in a while someone writes a really nice blog comment about LibriVox. This is one:
In tangential news, we’ve upped production approximately 6000% in the past couple weeks, with a couple neat discoveries.
First of all, http://librivox.org is a free source for public domain recordings of public domain books. Now, I don’t know about y’all, […]

PDsounds - Challenge

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

WHAT IS IT? pdsounds is like LibriVox for audio-other-than-text. Go there to find recordings of babies sneezing, cats purring and fireworks exploding. It’s all dedicated to the public domain, and therefore is available for people to use in all sorts of ways. Sounds from there make regular appearances in my LibriVox Community Podcasts, for example!
TAKE […]

Librivox Community Podcast #79

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #79 - 24th April 2008
Duration 12:18
Your host this week is Cori Samuel.
Voices for the Addicted: musicmaiden, russiandoll, gypsygirl and Cloud Mountain. Please feel free to share your stories in that thread too.
New Projects Launch Pad - chocoholic explains all.
What are your favourite recordings? - Steampunk […]

emaildesk: praise for kayray

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

What great feedback this is:

Dear Kayray ….I really am happy to send you this message ,since you are one of our favourite reader of the librivox.Me and my friends live in one of the nations in Africa,namely the proud and never colonized country Ethiopia.Though we are materially poor we enjoy here too much for the […]

Librivox Community Podcast #78

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #78 - 10th April 2008
Duration 18:42
Your host this week is Cori Samuel.
Original thoughts by AmethystA and mlemmons.
Excerpts from:
Emma by Jane Austen - section read by kayray
Bleak House by Charles Dickens - section read by asy
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - section read by acrobatty
Jane […]

Librivox Community Podcast #77

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #77 - 3rd April 2008
Duration 20:52
Your host this week is Cori Samuel.
Some LV stat-stuff, admittedly more random than usual.
The oldest known recording of the human voice — from 1860.
Please note this is licenced under a Creative Commons copyright. Please refer their webpage to find out […]

Librivox Community Podcast #76

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Listen to the this week’s Librivox Community Podcast Show #76
Duration: 21:48
Host: Great Plains
0:00 — Daniel rambles about acoustics
10:45 — Excerpt from Twelfth Night
11:02 — Stats intro
11:24 — Stats read by Helen Elsbeth
13:19 — New users
13:45 — According to Wikipedia (music: National Anthem of the Soviet Union as performed by the United States Navy […]

Librivox Community Podcast #75

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Listen to the wonderful Librivox Community Podcast Show #75
Duration 25:02
Your host this week is Cori Samuel.
Music by The Rogue Bluegrass Band, in the public domain at archive.org.
Starlite conducts an interview with johng. Part 1.
Hullo to some new folks, thanks from Katie12 (read by kayray) and stats by […]