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 […]

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #83 - 16th July 2008
Duration 17:14
Your host this week is Joe ‘Mango’ Pilsbury.
Alana sings her version of the LibriVox Song. (Not So) Annoying Twit discusses the use of software to change pitch in recorded voices — a possible route to character voice creation. […]

The newest LibriVox New Releases Podcast, with
select samples of audiobooks released in June ‘08 is
now available for download. Hosted by LV volunteer FNH,
this informative, entertaining podcast samples but a few
of the 69 outstanding new releases for June 2008! Listen now!
Podcast 009 - Total time: 18:15

This month, 10 of LV’s 69 new releases are sampled:
• Hospital […]

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #82 - 26th June 2008
Duration 16:09
Your host this week is Cori Samuel.
Equipment reviews: digitaltoast goes retro, while Starlite is back to the future with a new H2! Music: From Dvorak’s New World Symphony in the public domain at musopen.com.
Book promotion samples from: Our Vanishing […]

THE LV WEEKLY SHORT STORY PODCAST
THE LV POETRY PODCAST
Just in time for your summer listening pleasure, two new LibriVox Podcasts are ready to jump into your iPods. A great way to sample the massive LV Catalog: weekly samples focusing specifically on poetry and short stories, updated every Saturday. But don’t worry, we won’t be running […]

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 […]

The newest LibriVox New Releases Podcast, with
select samples of audiobooks released in May 08 is
now available for download. Hosted by volunteer FNH,
this smooth, relaxed podcast samples but a few of
the great 115 new releases for May 2008! Listen now!
The podcast for releases in May 2008 is downloadable HERE.

We’ve had a pretty extraordinary May. We cataloged our 1,500th book, James Baldwin’s children’s history book, Four Great Americans, which was a great accomplishment. (Considering seven months ago we were at 1,000).
But we also had an impressively productive month: we released 115 (!) audiobooks into the public domain, almost four per day. Our previous record […]

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #81 - 31st May 2008
Duration 20:57
Your host this week is Cori Samuel.
The Astonishing Statistics of May! Featuring valiant attempts to hit a fast-moving target by ductapeguy.
An interview by Andy Minter, with gloriana.
Music: From Sousa’s Band, Hippodrome March and Trombone Sneeze.
Subscribe to the Librivox […]

LibriVox catalog just reached 1,500 items, the lucky audiobook, Four Great Americans, by James Baldwin wins two free tickets to the next LibriVox reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses!
This was the 96th book published this month, and we are pretty close to getting a 100-book month, smashing our previous record of 77 books set in […]