Archive for the 'on the web' Category

LV and learning disabilities

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Christina Laun at Collegedregee.com has a list of 100 Web Tools for Learning with a Disability, including a nod to LibriVox.

The Second Life Literary Foundation

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

I just got a great email message:
Dear Mr. McGuire,
I have recently opened a library in the virtual world of Second Life (www.secondlife.com), and I took the liberty of introducing some of your audio book files into our collection. We, The Second Life Literary Foundation, are a purely non-profit group, and all books using Librivox files [...]

Open Letter Re: Canada’s New Copyright Bill

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Canada’s minority Conservative government has tabled a new copyright bill, Bill C-61, which has come under fire from many people.
The Bill must go through several rounds of debate before it gets voted on in Parliament, and so vocal opposition to dangerous measures in the Bill are important.
The Bill has draconian provisions banning circumvention of [...]

Stockholm Challenge

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Having fun in Stockholm, at the Stockholm Challenge.

blogdesk: LibriVox & ebay

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Our friends at SFF Audio have a nice summary of a discussion that comes up once in a while, ebayers selling LibriVox recordings:
I really like the attitude of the people over on LibriVox.org. In one thread on the LibriVox forums a first time poster makes note that ‘LibriVox titles are being sold on eBay for [...]

blogdesk: nice comment

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Every once in a while someone writes a really nice blog comment about LibriVox. This is one:
In tangential news, we’ve upped production approximately 6000% in the past couple weeks, with a couple neat discoveries.
First of all, http://librivox.org is a free source for public domain recordings of public domain books. Now, I don’t know about y’all, [...]

PDsounds – Challenge

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

WHAT IS IT? pdsounds is like LibriVox for audio-other-than-text. Go there to find recordings of babies sneezing, cats purring and fireworks exploding. It’s all dedicated to the public domain, and therefore is available for people to use in all sorts of ways. Sounds from there make regular appearances in my LibriVox Community Podcasts, for example!
TAKE [...]

Free Listens

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Free Listens is a blog dedicated to reviewing free audiobooks (including some LibriVox books), with new posts weekly. We particularly like the sensible/honest review policies:

* Solo recordings – I tend to review recordings made by one person, rather than the chapter-per-person organization of the Librivox group recordings. I do this for two reasons: 1) I [...]

Jon Udell on LibriVox & the noosphere

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Jon Udell recently gave a talk called Hacking the Noosphere. For those interested in the intersection of technology and society, there’s lots of good stuff in there, and if you scroll down, an interesting take on LirbiVox:

Another example, one that happens to be Montreal-based, is LibriVox, the collaborative project to make [...]

LibriVox Recommendations

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

We occasionally get people asking for recommendations. MetaFilter has a thread collecting some good ones:
LibriVox Recommendations from MetaFilter.