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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Welcome to the first leg ouf our World Tour 2012! Follow 10 gems from our catalog on a round trip through the Old World…
Let’s start in the West, in lovely green Ireland, where Clodagh, daughter of The Gambler Dennis Asshlin fights for her family’s honor – by marrying the wrong man. Find out in [...]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Tomorrow, LibriVox.org will go dark (though the forums will remain up). Instead of our regular pages and catalog, you’ll see the following:
Today, many websites around the Internet have “gone dark” to protest against, and raise awareness about some very important proposed legislation in the United States, which could fundamentally alter how the Internet operates: [...]
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Sunday, January 1st, 2012
Happy New Year to everyone!
New Year – New Resolutions, which are more often than not thrown out shortly after the Christmas decorations. But maybe the following 10 gems from our catalog help you keep them for longer this year.
Top Resolution #1 is doing less of stuff: drinking, smoking, eating… The successful treatment in [...]
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
The year draws to a close, and many people use this time for retro- and introspection. Maybe the folllowing 10 gems from our catalog will help you on your spiritual journey.
Let’s start with the obvious: Christmas! You know the story: Bethlehem, manger, shepherds, star, three wise men,… Well, there is also the Story of [...]
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Monday, October 31st, 2011
November makes the last leaves fall as well as the temperature – a great time to stay at home and get in touch with friends… To get you in the write mood, we present 10 corresponding gems from our catalog.
The Cathay poems, written by Ezra Pound, or rather, tranlated from the Japanese and Chinese, [...]
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Friday, October 28th, 2011
Today we welcome the 5000th project to LibriVox.
It’s Roderick Hudson by Henry James.
Read by Nicholas Clifford
Dedicated Proof-Listener: Martin Geeson
Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: Annise
It was the second of December last year, we announced the 4000th LibriVox project.
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
We are delighted to report that we have been able to recommence the cataloguing of completed audiobooks. Indeed, 29 have been added in the last 24 hours, and there are many more to come.
Most audiobooks have now had their RSS and iTunes links restored. The rest should be added within the next few days.
The [...]
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Saturday, October 1st, 2011
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 [...]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
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 [...]
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Thursday, September 1st, 2011
September 26 is the “European Day of Languages” to promote language learning. We at librivox do that all-year-round with recordings in more than 30 different languages. And we’ll present the following 10 gems from our non-english catalog:
The Ancient Greeks are considered the fathers of Western culture, and at that time, Greek was indeed the lingua [...]
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