Just in time for your 2008/09 new year’s celebration, LibriVox has reach another great milestone, by cataloging our 2,000th book, Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. VI.
The rest of the series can be found here:
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
LibriVox [...]

We have selected a few seasonal recordings for your holiday enjoyment! :D
Christmas Short Works Collection 2008 (multilingual)
Christmas Short Works Collection 2007
Christmas Short Works Collection 2006
Nussknacker und Mausekönig
The Spirit of Christmas
A Christmas Carol
Santa Claus’s Partner
The Seven Poor Travellers
The Story of the Other Wise Man
The Birds’ Christmas Carol
I hope you enjoy them, and wish you all [...]

From a listener:
Dear everyone at LibriVox, we would like to thank each and every one of you for contributing to this wonderful library. Since my wife’s eye sight has been failing due to retinitis pigmentosa, she can not any more enjoy reading. It was opening a new world for her, when I discovered LibriVox this [...]

One of our prolific readers, John Greenman (The Voice of Mark Twain) received this email from a listener:

Hi John,
I have looked for your email in the past so that I could write and say that you have been blessed with the voice and the ability to speak with the rhythm that I have always thought [...]

Dear all who may read this:
I would like to express my unceasing thanks to all those who volunteer
and read all the various books posted on your website. It has
inexpressibly enriched my life spent traveling. I love to read and
now I can do so incessantly :) As soon as I have some time [...]

Cori writes:
Podcasts are fun. LibriVox podcasts are particularly fun. Please help me put the “Community” in “LibriVox Community Podcast” and consider contributing to one or more of the podcasts planned below.
11th December: LibriVox and the Daily Commute — travel tips for literate listeners
I’ve noticed people talking in the forums about MP3 players [...]

MT writes:
Hi Hugh,
I am writing this mail just to say thank you for the wonderful project you have started.
I have been introducing Audio Books form LibriVox to learners of English in Japan in the past year, and I have had a great time.
The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, The Winds in the Willows…those are [...]

O’Reilly TOC blog has an interview with … me! …. about LibriVox:
LibriVox is a volunteer effort with a big goal: record audiobook editions for every title in the public domain. In the following Q&A, LibriVox founder Hugh McGuire discusses the project’s beginnings, the organic development of the LibriVox community, and the distinctions (or lack thereof) [...]

Many people who are not comfortable recording for LibriVox help out in other ways. You might consider helping as a Proof-Listener, making sure that there are no technical problems with an audio file before it goes into the catalog. This includes repeats, badly edited sections, major stumbles, long silences and the like.
Because of the [...]

Dylan Wittkower, LibriVox’s resident philosopher and reader of such gems as Schopenhauer’s Studies in Pessimism, and JS Mill’s Utilitarianism, has edited a new academic/popular text, The iPod and Philosophy, which includes some contributions from the LibriVox community.