One of LibriVox’s early volunteers, Paula B of the great podcast, the Writing Show, has a fantastic interview with four other LibriVoxers (Kara-San Diego, Kristen-Tokyo, Chris-Sydney, and Hugh-Montreal, and Paual in … LA?). All done real-time on Skype.
Great work Paula!
Happy new year all…

PCWorld’s Angela Gunn talks about LibriVox in the December 16 episode of Digital Duo, watch the video here.

The great vidcast out of Toronto, commandN feature librivox as a webpick in their holiday episode, the last of 2005. see it here.

A group called the institute for the future of the book wrote, what is, I think, the most exciting bit of prose I’ve seen about LibriVox yet. Here is the paragraph that I read three times:

As a regular audiobook listener, I was struck by the fact that while most literary audiobooks are read by authors [...]

A popular German site, heise online, posted about us here. We’ve had loads of hits from Germany, and a few questions about why we have no German books … answer: we have no German volunteers yet! So:
Willkommen zu LibriVox! Wir sind gefragt worden, warum wir keine deutschen Bücher haben! Die Antwort ist: Wir [...]

The famous Wired News story about LibriVox finally came out. Though, I think I was a bit optimistic, I don’t think we’ll complete 30 recordings by the end of the year … unless some keeners come on board today and jump right in!

This summer, Hugh McGuire was searching for free audio books online from [...]

Chicago Sun Times made us their Click Here pick for Dec 6, 2005. Here’s what they said:

Download free audio books, such as Jack London’s The Call of the Wild or Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and listen to them on your Apple iPod or other digital music player. If you like to read aloud, volunteer to make [...]

I’m not quite sure what blueyonder is — it seems to be the content page for telwest, a UK broadband supplier — but anyway it’s a serious site, and in this article they give their podcast recommendations. And what are those recommendations? BBC, CBC, NPR, Guardian Unlimited … and LibriVox! Wow. That’s some good [...]

We are a USA Today “Hot Site” for December 4, 2005 …

iPod-Time Stories
Download free audio books, such as Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, and listen to them on your portable digital music player. You can also volunteer to make recordings for the site.
Note that we are the link with a picture of Frankenstein. see:
USA Today Hot Sites [...]

Our efforts seem to have been detected by Gannett News Services, owner of USA Today, though it looks like we have only turned up in Indystar.com, from Indiana. Say they:
Download free audio books, such as Jack London’s “The Call of the Wild” or Mary Shelly’s “Frankenstein” and listen to them on your Apple iPod [...]