Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #116 hosted by Ruth Golding (RuthieG).

Duration: 44m 21s.

Tributes to:
The late Chris Booth (icyjumbo) including an extract from his reading of William Wilberforce’s 1789 speech ‘On Slavery‘.
The late Alan Davis Drake (Cloud Mountain) including his reading of Jazz Fantasia by Carl Sandburg.
Contributions from:
Andy Minter (ExEmGe) on ‘Where to listen to LibriVox [...]

Librivox’ 6th Birthday is the perfect opportunity to celebrate the most important part of it: Our readers! And that it’s all about equality on here is proven by the fact that our top 10 praised readers during the last year are 5 men and 5 women.
Ladies first:
Elizabeth Klett, professor of literature, expert knitter and drama [...]

One of our newer readers writes in the forum:

On the nature of audio books and “reading”
I am fairly new to the world of audio books and very new to reading within Librivox. The bother of keeping track of stacks of CDs, which might scratch if not handled with care, and the equipment one might have [...]

From 08:40 GMT July 5th: Regrettably, it appears that the secure server where the forum lives is currently down again.
We will get it functioning again as soon as possible, and apologise for the inconvenience.
The catalogue server and downloads are unaffected.
EDITED TO ADD: Apologies for the latest outage, which was caused by a problem related [...]

July it is, and summer is at its peak in the Northern hemisphere. Just the right time to present 10 adventurous gems from our catalog.
Let’s begin with one of the oldest adventure stories, about the return of Ulysses from Troy. His Odyssey, described by Homer, took 10 years to complete, but more than 2600 years [...]

Sorry folks, the LibriVox forum has gone down due to continuing problems as we try to rebuild/shore up our infrastructure following the hack a while ago.
More news when available.
Sorry again.
EDITED TO ADD: Forums and catalogue are now back up (18:30 GMT)

We still have a number of areas where work is ongoing, and users may notice things that are not working properly yet. There is a lot of work still to do and it is going to take some time to get everything functioning as we would wish. Security and usability are our top priorities.
In the [...]

The catalog is back up!
The tireless Dan has been working night and day to fix numerous issues with our catalog, and finally it is back up and running. Magic Windows (for you volunteers) are working again too. Thanks to Kara and others for help testing.
Also: a big thank you to David at the security firm/startup [...]

We are pleased to report that the catalogue is now available again. It has been extensively tested, but please report any minor hiccups on the Error Reports forum.
As Fanny Kemble wrote:
Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin,
But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.
Thank you for your patience.

Sorry folks, the LibriVox catalog is down for maintenance for a couple of days…. we’ll get it back up as soon as possible.