Today LibriVox welcomed the 4000th project to her catalog.
It’s: The Battle of Marathon by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Read by Nathan
Dedicated Proof-Listener: Betty M.
Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: Nadine Eckert-Boulet
All details are on the catalog page.
You’ll find all other 3999 books over here.

Another year is ending, and we at librivox celebrate the holidays and wrapped up 10 gems from our catalog.
In the German speaking countries in Europe, it is the custom to count the days until Christmas by opening one door daily of the ‘Adventskalender‘. We hope that you enjoy our acoustic one just as much [...]

Misty November has arrived, and who knows what’s lurking in its fogs… Nobody can know all the gems hiding in our catalog, but our flashlights light up 10 of them.
November starts with All Saints and All Souls Day. Listen to our Poems and Prose for the Departed to remember your loved ones.
More remembrance [...]

Autumn has arrived and we have dug deep into our catalog to present 10 gems for your listening pleasure.
October starts out with children’s book week, and what better book to celebrate this than Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. His classic book about the short-nosed, long-nosed marionette has been a kid’s favorite for over 100 years. [...]

Today Dutch Librivoxateers got together to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Librivox. We met in Utrecht in a cafe, we visited the Utrecht University Library and we went to a secondhand bookshop, to look for new material to record.
We took our new books to a volunteer’s home (where we had a lovely dinner) and started [...]

Hot off the press: Jesse and Scott of SFF Audio invited me onto their podcast for a chat. We talk about audiobooks, LibriVox, open collaborative projects, the web and various other things. Here is the link:
http://www.sffaudio.com/?p=23539

The cover art to LibriVox’s recording of Moby Dick is currently featuring in an ad campaign by the US telecoms company AT&T.
You can see the ad by clicking here. It was directed by Dennis Liu for the ad agancy BBDO.
You can see the shot of the cover art, created by regular LV sleeve contributor Kate [...]

On August 10, 2005 I put up a website, called it LibriVox, and posted the following:
LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting?
LibriVox is an open source audio-literary attempt to harness the power of [...]

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #113 with Gesine.

Duration: 25:04
In Community Podcast 113, Gesine explains the ins and outs of the new ‘Thank a reader’ feature on the LibriVox website. Clicking on the link in the right-hand sidebar, listeners can send their thanks to a designated email address, and an admin posts the messages in a [...]

In this, the 100th year of Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens) death, we’re fortunate that a newspaper article by Twain about US/China relations, written in 1868, has suddenly become available. LibriVox volunteer John Greenman has recorded the article, and been given permission to use the following introduction from Twain Scholar, Shelley Fisher Fishkin.
“A good candidate for [...]