Hello Everyone,
We host all our audio files with the wonderful archive.org. The last couple of days, we’ve been getting numerous reports of LirbiVox books being unavailable, unfindable, or undownloadable. We are looking into it with archive.org - but don’t panic! We’ve had similar issues in the past, and after some hiccups, we expect things will […]

Remixfight provides audio and asks people to remix and upload the resulting tracks. The most recent episode asks remixers to go to work on David Barnes’ LibriVox recording of the Universal Declaration of Human rights. Great stuff.
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Canadian literary/arts mag Descant has a great article on LibriVox, including this nice little para:

But “niche market” might be the wrong term for this site. It is not interested in creating a market. Nor is it interested in making a profit. There are no ads on the site and it proudly boasts a budget of […]

LibriVox’s Third Anniversary is coming up, and we’re putting together a celebratory community podcast to be released on the 7th August.
We want to hear from our listeners … what you think the best things about LibriVox are. You could say something about a special recording you’ve listened to. Maybe a book that’s meant a […]

Christina Laun at Collegedregee.com has a list of 100 Web Tools for Learning with a Disability, including a nod to LibriVox.

I just got a great email message:
Dear Mr. McGuire,
I have recently opened a library in the virtual world of Second Life (www.secondlife.com), and I took the liberty of introducing some of your audio book files into our collection. We, The Second Life Literary Foundation, are a purely non-profit group, and all books using Librivox files […]

The newest LibriVox New Releases Podcast, with
select samples of audiobooks released in June ‘08 is
now available for download. Hosted by LV volunteer FNH,
this informative, entertaining podcast samples but a few
of the 69 outstanding new releases for June 2008! Listen now!
Podcast 009 - Total time: 18:15

This month, 10 of LV’s 69 new releases are sampled:
• Hospital […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]