Archive for the 'about LibriVox' Category
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 […]
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Michael Geist has an article in the Toronto Star about book 2.0 projects. The two projects cited are Evan Prodromou’s Wikitravel Press, and LibriVox.
About LibriVox, he says:
Canadians are also playing a leading role in reshaping the creation of audiobooks. Hugh McGuire, a Montreal-based writer and Web developer, established LibriVox in August 2005. The site is […]
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
LibriVox New Release Podcast for audiobooks
released in Nov. 2007 is now available from Archive.org.
Hosted by LibriVox volunteer Alan Drake.
To subscribe please use this FeedBurner link:
or Right click HERE to download New Releases Podcast 006.
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The New Releases Podcast is a preview of the LibriVox.org newest free audiobooks. LibriVox is an online volunteer community dedicated […]
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
We occasionally get people asking for recommendations. MetaFilter has a thread collecting some good ones:
LibriVox Recommendations from MetaFilter.
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
LibriVox New Release Podcast for audiobooks released
in Oct. 2007 is now available from Archive.org.
Hosted by LibriVox volunteer Alan Drake.
To subscribe please use this FeedBurner link:
or Right click HERE to download New Releases Podcast 006.
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The New Releases Podcast is a preview of the LibriVox.org newest free audiobooks. LibriVox is an online volunteer community dedicated […]
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
As far as I know, this is the first youtube vid using LibriVox audio. This is DE. Wittkower reading Schopenhauer’s Studies in Pessimism. Music is Richard Wagner’s Rheingold. I’m not sure the providence of the images.
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Max Havelaar, of de koffij-veilingen der Nederlandsche Handel- Maatschappij by Multatuli, read by Anna Simon in Dutch and proof listened by Ans Wink, was released today as the 100th non-English-language LibriVox audiobook.
Congratulations go out to all of you who made this possible, especially the contributers of the previous 99 projects!
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
LibriVox recordings have been available on iTunes for more
than a year, but recently more and more LibriVox recordings
and LV readers have begun to appearing in iTunes podcasts.
Currently there are 21 LibriVox-centered podcasts regularly
featured in the iTunes Store. Take a peek!
Link: Screen view of all things LibriVox on iTunes
Visit the iTunes Store to access the […]
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
LibriVox is doing another national novel writing month (nanowrimo) novel … why not sign up for a chapter here.
background:
During the month of November 2007, LibriVox volunteers write the serial novel The Yellow Sheet together, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month. Each volunteer writes one or more chapter (we do one chapter […]
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Well, we did it. We just cataloged our 1,000th book, and for that a huge thank you must go out to everyone who has ever said or written the word LibriVox. Thank you first to the readers for lending their voices to something wonderful; to the Book Coordinators who pull things together; to the Meta […]
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