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We have released two new audiobooks this week: A School History of the Great War, which includes European history leading up to the war and reasons for America’s eventual entry into the war, and Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915, a most moving account of a British nurse’s experiences during the first year of World War One.

In some of our weekly poetry projects, where a particular poem is read by a variety of readers, you will find works by some of the most distinguished war poets:

• Wilfred Owen:
  Smile, Smile, Smile
  Anthem for Doomed Youth
  Dulce et Decorum Est
• John McCrae:
  In Flanders Fields
  The Unconquered Dead

During the week commencing November 8th, why not come and join us in making your own recording of The Soldier by Rupert Brooke?

There is a rich variety of books written about the First World War. Here are some suggestions:

Two books by James Norman Hall: High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France and Kitchener’s Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army.

Four Weeks in the Trenches by Fritz Kreisler, the famed violinist’s account of his service on the Russian Front.

Canada’s Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 – Nov. 11, 1918. Part One. Amiens by John Frederick Livesay.

The Escape of a Princess Pat by George Pearson, an account of the capture, imprisonment and final escape of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry.

Brieven van den nutteloozen toeschouwer, a series of newspaper columns in Dutch, written by well-known Dutch author Louis Couperus in 1914, during the first weeks of World War I.

In the Field (1914-1915) by Marcel Dupont, “a modest Lieutenant of Chasseurs”.

Over the Top by Arthur Empey, an account of the horror of trench warfare. As a little light relief, this also includes Empey’s popular “Tommy’s Dictionary of the Trenches” which humorously demystifies the slang used by the British soldier.

Observations of an Orderly by Ward Muir, who brings us into the heart of an English war hospital, describing scenes of cleanliness, triumph, order and sadness.

There are also a number of interesting items in Short Works Collections, including:

• Bombardment of the Dardanelles
• Haig Strikes Near Arras
• The First World War – Selections from the Manchester Guardian
• Austrian Emperor to Take Command at Vienna Headquarters

The Book of Hallowe’en by Ruth Edna Kelley, read by Sibella Denton. An account of the origin and history of Hallowe’en, illustrated by selections from ancient and modern poetry and prose.

The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, read by David Barnes. An American family have bought an English stately home, complete with resident ghost – blood-stains, clanking chains and all.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James, read by Peter Yearsley. James’s stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces.

Famous Modern Ghost Stories, compiled by Dorothy Scarborough, is an entertaining selection of stories, read by various readers. As the compiler wrote in 1921: “Life is so inconveniently complex nowadays, what with income taxes and other visitations of government, that it is hard for us to have the added risk of wraiths, but there’s no escaping.”

The Beetle by Richard Marsh certainly counts as being creepy enough for Hallowe’en: a story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting. Narrated from the perspectives of four characters, this is recorded by four different readers.

For a goodly helping of ghosts and witches, how can I possibly leave out the Librivox recording of Shakespeare’s Macbeth?

Nachtstücke von E.T.A. Hoffmann, gelesen von Rainer. Die “Nachtstücke” sind eine Sammlung von unheimlichen Geschichten, die der Romantik zuzuordnen sind.

Animal Ghosts by Elliott O’Donnell, read by Allyson Hester. Supposedly true stories of hauntings by many different kinds of creatures…

And now for a little non-fiction, though these are certainly long-leggedy beasties… The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre, read by various readers.

And, if you finally want to get rid of all those ghouls and get to sleep, how about trying The Ghost Extinguisher by Gelett Burgess, a short story read by Gregg Margarite for one of our many collections of ghost and horror short stories?

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There are Swedish and Danish and even Finnish recordings, but none in Norwegian.

What gives, Norway? We’d love to have you … join us, it’s fun!

Beyond Publishing: When Every Book is Connected to Everyone

We have an all-star line-up who have agreed to join us (if SXSW agrees to give us some space to talk):

• Kassia Krozser co-founder of Quartet Press
• Peter Brantley, Director of the Internet Archive
• Andrew Savikas, VP of Digital Initiatives at O’Reilly Media
• and me, co-founder of Book Oven and LibriVox

The description of the panel is as follows:

What happens when every book is online, linkable, and connected to every writer and every reader? What happens when the book is liberated from being words on paper, unbound from a format that’s two thousand years old? What happens to how we read and how we write?

For more info, or to comment on or vote for the panel (please do!), see here.

The home of 2,557 audiobooks in 26 languages – all FREE. Hugh McGuire launched the volunteer-effort audiobook publishing model LibriVox on August 10th, 2005. Hugh is this week’s Inside the Audiobook Studio guest, ready to share the background on this amazing project. Want more information on LibriVox? Subscribe to the Community Podcast here. Have you always wanted to be an audiobook narrator – or perhaps want to challenge students to develop their oral performance skills? Are you an aspiring audio editor and need some practice? Try your talents by becoming a LibriVox volunteer! Want to learn how to slow down the LibriVox audiobooks? Searching for a list of recommended best FREE LibriVox titles? You’ll find answers to all things LibriVox on the LibriVox Wiki. [more...]

You too can volunteer! Or perhaps just pop in to say hi on the forum.

And you can join the celebration by Listening to the LibriVox Community Podcast #106 hosted by Esther.

Download audio file (librivox_community_podcast_106.mp3)

Duration: 49:40

Intro by Esther with thoughts from Lars Rolander and a poetry collage by David Lawrence.

A few thoughts from Original Member Kara Shallenberg and Founder Hugh McGuire.

A special presentation by Neeru and Eli!

More thoughts from Ryan, Julie and Joy!

Another of Ruthie’s infamous arrangements…

Cori closes us off with one of her famous disclaimers.

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Community Podcasts have been downloaded 11,238 times so far this year!

“Doc” Smith’s space opera Triplanetary, eagerly awaited by all fans of reader Mark F. Smith.

The Sea Wolf and The Scarlet Plague by Jack London.

Eight recordings for children, including By Pond and River by Arabella Buckley, Baum’s The Magic of Oz and The Magic City by E. Nesbit.

Religion and philosophy, including St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, Part Two, and The Autobiography of Madame Guyon, French mystic and advocate of Quietism.

101 years after the opening of Maria Montessori’s first Children’s House we have recorded the first English translation of The Montessori Method.

Volume One of one of the longest novels in the English Language the epistolary Clarissa by Samuel Richardson.

Stephen Leacock’s Nonsense Novels.

Murder mystery Madame Midas by Fergus Hume, always a popular author here.

The strange and wonderful The First Book of Urizen by William Blake, and the equally strange and wonderful post-apocalyptic classic After London by Richard Jefferies.

As usual, of course, there are short stories, poetry, Sci-Fi (Collections 20 and 21), and Ghost and Horror stories.

We have catalogued works in Chinese, Hebrew, Swedish, Dutch and German.

And much, much more: for all works catalogued during July, please see this page.

Next month, during which we celebrate Librivox’s 4th birthday, I shall return to some lesser-known recordings from our first four years.

You may see all the new additions here.

June provided us with a veritable feast of recordings, including:

• The second volume of Hapgood’s English translation of Hugo’s Les Misérables.
• Another convoluted plot from Wilkie Collins, brimful of colourful characters: Armadale.
• This Simian World by Clarence Day, Jr., a satirical speculation on how the world might be different if we apes had not risen to prominence.
• The concluding volume of Mrs. Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë.
• The gruesome first volume of the 16th century Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants.
• The long awaited Dubliners by James Joyce and Volume I of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.
• Dramatic recordings, including Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Shaw’s Pygmalion.
• Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism by A. Alpheus.
• No less than three G.K. Chesterton works: Irish Impressions, Lord Kitchener and What I Saw in America.
• A Spanish recording, a multilingual short story collection, three Dutch recordings, and six German works.

And lots, lots more. Have fun!

We are talking about :

The one complaint of all librivoxateers- librivox is too addictive!

LV invading dreams and making imagination running wild!

How does the (non)addict – Lars Rolander manage to stay un-addicted?

How does a librivoxateer know he/she is addicted?

Test yourself for lv addiction!!! – Name the voice contest

aradlaw’s visit to the YOU KNOW YOU’RE ADDICTED TO LIBRIVOX WHEN… forum.. and his fav. Posts!

Celebrating a LibriVox-addict’s birthday?

Market report

Mic-weather report

We want to thank everybody who contributed… there are just too many of you to mention everybody by name.

LibriVox Community Podcast – Serving the Librivox community since 2006

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I talk about audiobooks, time acquisition, LibriVox, Google, the link, and the digital archaeology of love. And Hinton, Alberta.

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