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Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
May is a good time to fall in love – but not everything starting out on cloud #9 has a happy landing on the ground of reality, as 10 gems from our catalog show… Abelard and Heloise are a medieval couple famous for their Love Letters. Starting out as teacher and pupil, they became lovers, [...]
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Monday, April 1st, 2013
Mother Earth is celebrated wordwide on Earth Day, April 22nd. Have a great party with 10 gems from our catalogue! No feat(ure) of nature is so widely discussed, praised and condemmed as – the weather. J. G. M’Pherson explains all its details in his 1905 science book Meteorology. Mostly monotone weather is expected by Mary, [...]
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Thursday, March 14th, 2013
On March 12th (online) and March 13th (printed edition), we were delighted to see our friend John Greenman figure in an article in the New York Times “Older adults start new chapters in their work lives”. It is great to see a picture of him with his recording set-up. However, the article failed to state [...]
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Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
TOMORROW we will be doing some software upgrades, as part of our Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project. We plan to update our forum, wiki and the WordPress software which runs our website and catalogue. The new software has already been tested with all our data and systems and there won’t be many visible differences. The [...]
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Friday, March 1st, 2013
On the equinox both day and night are 12 hours long. The following 10 gems from our catalog are concerned with differences – and equality. Photogen is a boy who never saw the moon. Nycteris is a girl who never saw the sun. Find out what happens when The Day Boy and the Night Girl [...]
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Friday, February 1st, 2013
Slavery – a black chapter in human history. Find out what it meant for those involved, even after its abolishment, from 10 gems of our catalog. Clotel, the President’s Daughter, lived a quite comfortable life – until the death of her father. Still legally a slave, she and her mother and sister end up at [...]
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Saturday, January 26th, 2013
Hi there, everyone out there who has or would like to build an app or web service on the LibriVox catalog. We are in the process of revamping our API. You can find the latest information on our Forum Thread, including links to the latest documentation: https://forum.librivox.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=44129 Thanks!
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2013
Happy New Year! And happy it is indeed, as we have just survived the latest apocalypse of 21. December 2012… However, it’s never too early to prepare for the next one – with 10 gems from our catalog. The major problem of people predicting the End of the World is that hardly anyone believes them. [...]
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Thursday, December 20th, 2012
It’s always a pleasure to welcome a new language to the LibriVox Catalog. Today we welcomed our first Ukrainian project. It’s: Fables by Leonid Glibov, or in Ukrainian: Байки Леонiда Глiбова. The reader is Radar and the DPL was Nadya Gaganova. We hope for many more books in this beautiful language. Байки Леонiда Глiбова by [...]
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
Dear All, We are now 6 months into the Mellon-funded project, to revamp the LibriVox tech infrastructure. We have a few people paid to work on the project: Jeff Madsen (developer), Artom Lifshitz (system administrator), and Valerie Bock (project manager). To date, they have together logged 441 hours, or about 44% of paid hours budgeted [...]
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