What delicious offerings did we have for you in July? A wide range, as usual:
“Doc” Smith’s space opera Triplanetary, eagerly awaited by all fans of reader Mark F. Smith.
The Sea Wolf and The Scarlet Plague by Jack London.
Eight recordings for children, including By Pond and River by Arabella Buckley, Baum’s The Magic of Oz and [...]

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #105 hosted by Cori Samuel.

Duration: 26:45
I’m talking about :
Our 2,500th recording is complete and catalogued!
It’s Lars’ birthday – Neeru and Elli enlist Ben Jonson and Barry to help celebrate!
All about the LibriVox policy welcoming multiple versions of the same text – our Choice of Voice!
Voices heard, in [...]

We are pleased to announce that June 2009 was our third most productive month ever, with 93 recordings added to the catalogue.
You may see all the new additions here.
June provided us with a veritable feast of recordings, including:

The second volume of Hapgood’s English translation of Hugo’s Les Misérables.
Another convoluted plot from Wilkie Collins, brimful of [...]

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #104 hosted by Elli and Neeru.

Duration 50:56
We are talking about :
The one complaint of all librivoxateers- librivox is too addictive!
LV invading dreams and making imagination running wild!
How does the (non)addict – Lars Rolander manage to stay un-addicted?
How does a librivoxateer know he/she is addicted?
Test yourself [...]

This is my presentation at the BookNetCanada Tech Forum in March, titled: LibriVox: Time, Love & Books. Sorry, there is 1 slide only, for you Powerpoint buffs.
I talk about audiobooks, time acquisition, LibriVox, Google, the link, and the digital archaeology of love. And Hinton, Alberta.

Link to the vid.

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #103 hosted by Epistomolus, with contributions from GreggMargarite and RuthieG.

Duration 19:22
Epistomolus makes some suggestions for those recording here at LibriVox … Gregg talks to recording folk also, about inhibitions and the benefits of easing out of them … and Ruth answers the generally very sensible question (to a non-LibriVoxer, [...]

One of the reasons I started LibriVox, I think, was so that I could make an audio recording of “The Dead,” by James Joyce, from his collection Dubliners.
It is a story of such grace and skill; the build up slow and good-humoured and banal, but when that last section finally comes, it contains so much [...]

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #102 hosted by Lars Rolander.

Duration 29:53
Welcome to a cup of tea.
Reflections on making voices or characters in reading. Voice-memories from school- and radio-days.
An Idea for a Pod discussion.
Oh no ! . . . Oscar !!!
My first Librivox reading with short examples from Edith Nesbit:
“New Treasure seekers” (http://librivox.org/new-treasure-seekers-by-edith-nesbit/), here [...]

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim.
Four women leave dreary post-WWI London for a month in an Italian castle. Highly recommended by listeners. Read by Diana Kiesners.
Multilingual Poetry Collection 004.
Poems in Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Portuguese, Russian and Turkish.
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens.
A wonderful recording of one of Dickens’ masterpieces. [...]

Thanks to the good people at Archive.org, we are now beginning to add the new items that you have been waiting for! :D
A number of new works have already been cataloged thanks to our intrepid world-wide and sleep deprived MC volunteers, and they’ll continue to chip away at the backlog just as fast as they [...]