Consensus is, this is the best media article yet on LibriVox. Captured the history, the spirit, the mechanics all in a very comprehensive package. Thanks Rebecca!

Is your daily commute filled with blaring morning talk shows and radio traffic reports? If you’re like most commuters, your audio book collection is limited to “Who Moved My [...]

Canada’s national newspaper, the Globe & Mail, has an article on Ricky Gervais, podcasting and… a mention of LibriVox. Article by Scott Colbourne. We slot in at number 5 in the podcasts worth checking out:

5. LibriVox. Volunteers read classic novels, which can be downloaded in segments. Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground and Robert Louis [...]

BBC 4’s radio show, In Touch – a show by & for blind & partially sighted people, had a spot on LibriVox with an interview. You can find the streaming audio here. The LibriVox spot is somewhere in the middle of the 20 minute show. (PS kudos to Neal for getting honourary Canadian citizenship courtesy [...]

A very nice note by Jon Udell about LibriVox, juicy bit:

I don’t know if I’ll manage to contribute any recordings, but I tip my hat to everyone involved in this excellent project. This weekend, for example, New Hampshire was blanketed with new snow. On my outdoor rambles, I’ve been listening to Call of the Wild. [...]

Cyrus Farivar’s earlier reporting on Wired News was picked up and expanded for an audio segment on BBC’s The World. Hugh, Kara and Rainer are featured reading and talking about our activities.
Listen to the 4 minute segment (streaming Windows Media)

Interview about LibriVox on the cross-Canada CBC Radio show, Freestyle. CBC does not provide mp3s, but I recorded a pirate version (sorry it gets a bit staticky at the end): CBC Freestyle: LibriVox Interview.

There’s a nice article on the NPR website about audiobooks & LibriVox, by Xeni Jardin, not sure if there’s a listenable audio spot too? Anyway, here’s the link: Amateur Audio Books Catch Fire on the Web.

Bievenue aux francophones! Nous avons un projet en cours en français qui a besoin des voix francophones: Les Liaisons Dangeruese
Radio Canada, the French-language public broadcaster in Canada, has a spot on free culture, where they talk about Lawrence Lessig, Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg … and LibriVox.
Here’s the link: Le mouvement pour la culture libre. [...]

The Los Angeles Times (Technoloplis) has a very nice article about LibriVox in their Sunday, January 15 edition. Here is the link … I think LA Times might require registration, so here are some of the juicy bits:

Kara Shallenberg records audio books — most recently the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic “A Little Princess” — that [...]

So the idea was to have a little holiday for LibriVox, a break from December 26 to Jan 2, to let some of the busy volunteers, admins, and moderators have a breather from all the energies we (gladly) put into LibriVox, which for many, has become a labour of love. An addictive, wonderful, exciting, all-day-consuming, [...]