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Librivox Community Podcast #82

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #82 - 26th June 2008
Duration 16:09
Your host this week is Cori Samuel.
Equipment reviews: digitaltoast goes retro, while Starlite is back to the future with a new H2! Music: From Dvorak’s New World Symphony in the public domain at musopen.com.
Book promotion samples from: Our Vanishing […]

New LibriVox Podcasts

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 […]

Open Letter Re: Canada’s New Copyright Bill

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Canada’s minority Conservative government has tabled a new copyright bill, Bill C-61, which has come under fire from many people.
The Bill must go through several rounds of debate before it gets voted on in Parliament, and so vocal opposition to dangerous measures in the Bill are important.
The Bill has draconian provisions banning circumvention of […]

New Releases Podcast May 2008

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

The newest LibriVox New Releases Podcast, with
select samples of audiobooks released in May 08 is
now available for download. Hosted by volunteer FNH,
this smooth, relaxed podcast samples but a few of
the great 115 new releases for May 2008! Listen now!
The podcast for releases in May 2008 is downloadable HERE.

LibriVox 115 and 1500

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

We’ve had a pretty extraordinary May. We cataloged our 1,500th book, James Baldwin’s children’s history book, Four Great Americans, which was a great accomplishment. (Considering seven months ago we were at 1,000).
But we also had an impressively productive month: we released 115 (!) audiobooks into the public domain, almost four per day. Our previous record […]

Librivox Community Podcast #81

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #81 - 31st May 2008
Duration 20:57
Your host this week is Cori Samuel.
The Astonishing Statistics of May! Featuring valiant attempts to hit a fast-moving target by ductapeguy.
An interview by Andy Minter, with gloriana.
Music: From Sousa’s Band, Hippodrome March and Trombone Sneeze.
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One-five-oh-oh

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

LibriVox catalog just reached 1,500 items, the lucky audiobook, Four Great Americans, by James Baldwin wins two free tickets to the next LibriVox reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses!
This was the 96th book published this month, and we are pretty close to getting a 100-book month, smashing our previous record of 77 books set in […]

Librivox Community Podcast #80

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #80 - 23rd May 2008

Duration 15:46
Your host this week is Cori Samuel.
The Greenwich Tunnel Kru: russiandoll, earthcalling, AGSec, hugh, carlmanchester and Cori.
Version of this week’s Weekly poetry by icyjumbo (thanks again for the tip, Kristin!)
Greener Than You Think - the story behind one of our latest […]

Stockholm Challenge

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Having fun in Stockholm, at the Stockholm Challenge.

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 […]