LibriVox itself doesn’t produce any apps for the iphone, but we have an open catalog platform and all our books are free, so many others have built iPhone and Android apps for LibriVox.
Below you’ll find a collection of some of the iphone apps running off the LibriVox catalog (if you know of other good [...]

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #117 hosted by Bob Gonzalez (bobgon55).

Duration: 50m 10s.
A LibriVox Community Podcast celebrating … the Librivox Community Podcasts.
With contributions from: Esther (Starlite), Martin Geeson, Nick Clifford, Cori Samuel, Jim Mowatt, Ruth Golding, Timothy Ferguson, Phil Chenevert, Lars Rolander, David Barnes, and Sean McGaughey (ductapeguy).
Opening and intro (0:00)
Esther (Starlite) with Statistics [...]

November makes the last leaves fall as well as the temperature – a great time to stay at home and get in touch with friends… To get you in the write mood, we present 10 corresponding gems from our catalog.
The Cathay poems, written by Ezra Pound, or rather, tranlated from the Japanese and Chinese, [...]

Today we welcome the 5000th project to LibriVox.
It’s Roderick Hudson by Henry James.
Read by Nicholas Clifford
Dedicated Proof-Listener: Martin Geeson
Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: Annise
It was the second of December last year, we announced the 4000th LibriVox project.

We are delighted to report that we have been able to recommence the cataloguing of completed audiobooks. Indeed, 29 have been added in the last 24 hours, and there are many more to come.
Most audiobooks have now had their RSS and iTunes links restored. The rest should be added within the next few days.
The [...]

Schools and universities have started again after summer. Why not use 10 gems of our catalogue to catch up on the vast field of science?
Now…where to start… Well, probably at the beginning: Charles Darwin waited over 10 years before publishing his results on evolution, and his seminal work applying it to humans The Descent of [...]

Hello, everybody! We have another problem, I’m afraid. Plus ça change, eh? ;)
Further parts of the LibriVox site were migrated last night to a new server, and although it has restored the list of New Releases on the home page, it has unfortunately broken the catalogue pages of some of our new(ish)ly catalogued audiobooks.
If [...]

Very sad news: Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg (where most LibriVox texts come from), and the inventor of the ebook died this week.
Thank you for all you did, Michael.
Here is his obituary.

September 26 is the “European Day of Languages” to promote language learning. We at librivox do that all-year-round with recordings in more than 30 different languages. And we’ll present the following 10 gems from our non-english catalog:
The Ancient Greeks are considered the fathers of Western culture, and at that time, Greek was indeed the lingua [...]

Urgent note that LibriVox servers are about to get migrated.
Hopefully things will be smooth, seamless, and no one will notice a thing. Probably that won’t be the case.
So there may be more weirdness to fix afterwards, with particular areas of worry the Magic Window (for LibriVox volunteers) and the Catalog system (for listeners and [...]