MT writes:
Hi Hugh,
I am writing this mail just to say thank you for the wonderful project you have started.
I have been introducing Audio Books form LibriVox to learners of English in Japan in the past year, and I have had a great time.
The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, The Winds in the Willows…those are […]

O’Reilly TOC blog has an interview with … me! …. about LibriVox:
LibriVox is a volunteer effort with a big goal: record audiobook editions for every title in the public domain. In the following Q&A, LibriVox founder Hugh McGuire discusses the project’s beginnings, the organic development of the LibriVox community, and the distinctions (or lack thereof) […]

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 […]

Dylan Wittkower, LibriVox’s resident philosopher and reader of such gems as Schopenhauer’s Studies in Pessimism, and JS Mill’s Utilitarianism, has edited a new academic/popular text, The iPod and Philosophy, which includes some contributions from the LibriVox community.

We received this wonderfully touching email from Shanna H., whose father read for LibriVox:
I just wanted to let you know that the reader of Genesis in Hebrew is my father, Israel Radvinsky. He passed away last November and I miss him very much. I love that his voice is on the internet […]

Last night I went to the premier of my friend Brett’s movie: RIP: A Remixer’s Manifesto. It’s about copyright law, remixing, the public domain, culture, among other things, and it was really, really fantastic. If you get a chance, you should go see it.
The trailer focuses a bit too much on Girl Talk and his […]

This past weekend, LibriVox reached an extraordinary milestone: our catalog now contains 365 days worth of free, public domain audiobooks. So, if you started to listen to the catalog today, spending 24-hours-a-day with your headphones, it would take you a full year to listen to our entire current catalog. By which time, you’ll have hours […]

I recently came upon an article decrying the awfulness of most literary readings, pointed at by Frank Wilson of Books, Inq. Frank thinks it’s not all literary readings that make ears bleed, but that North American (versus British, Irish and other) writers have little command of the oral medium, and thinks that’s the problem.
I have […]

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #89
Duration 35:07
Your host this week is Cori Samuel.
Bloopers contributed by various individuals with great senses of humour, via this thread.
sjmarky reviews the new Audio-Technica USB mic.
Ductapeguy introduces a new project using LibriVox files - the Narrative and Sound Project.
A Character Voices Special - Part […]

Writes the Narrative and Sound Project:
I recently started a new web project [The Narrative and Sound Project], and your organization plays a very important part of it. The web project is about existing audiobooks and the idea of synthesizing them with music and sound. I have downloaded some of the audiobooks collection in your website […]