It’s June and hence time to prepare for summer with the following 10 gems of easy reading from our catalog.
During holidays, many people spend more time reading. To make sure this time is well spent, we recommend Literary Taste: How to form it, with lighthearted advice by Arnold Bennett to help you choose once [...]

In the fall-out of the LibriVox forum hack, we’ve battened down security. Part of that process broke our catalog and a few other things.
All should be working now.
Thanks especially to:
* Dan for dealing with the forum issues
* Chris for dealing with the catalog issues
* Kara and Elli for dealing with the flood of worried [...]

Hello everyone,
Last night the LibriVox forum got hacked. Below I’ll share the latest.
What happened?
Someone managed to get access to a “superadmin” account belonging to one of the MC/admins, meaning they could access the backend of our Forum software. The hack doesn’t appear to be a technical security hole, but rather the bad guys were able [...]

Yesterday LibriVox reached another milestone: now we have 3 years of recorded material in our catalog. To be exact: with the cataloging of ‘The Black Star’ we have 3 years, 0 days, 0 hours, 45 minutes and 26 seconds of audio books on our servers.
The honour of reaching the big three went to ‘The Black [...]

Here’s an hour-long discussion, with interaction from the audience, about LibriVox, with me & Steve Hargadon, for his Future of Education series.
Audio: http://audio.edtechlive.com/foe/hughmcguire.mp3

David Wilk invited me to his Publishing Talks Podcast, to about LibriVox, iambik, libraries, PressBooks, and general future of publishing stuff.
Here is the link.
And here is the audio [mp3].

May has arrived, and this time we present 10 gems on and about love from the depths of our catalog.
Let’s start at the beginning with First Love, of which most of us have fond memories. In Ivan Turgenev’s novella, Vladimir Petrovich recounts his turbulent first romance…
If you don’t want troubles to happen in your [...]

You may not know that LibriVox has a catalog API: that is, a way for other developers to access our whole catalog to build apps & other services on top of our audiobooks. You can find info about it here:
http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/LibriVoxAPI
This has resulted in numerous audiobook apps for the iPhone, Android, as well as a few [...]

Once more a new month has begun, and it’s no joke that once again we present 10 gems from our catalog.
Hopefully it’s not too late to prepare for April Fool’s Day! Our recording of Pathological Lying, Accusation and Swindling by William and Mary Healy tells you all there is to know about liars, so [...]

March 2nd is National Reading Day in the US. A perfect excuse – as if we needed any – to present 10 old and new gems from our mysterious catalog.
Let’s start by celebrating World Math’s Day on the first Wednesday in March. Henri Poincaré explains logic and mathematics in his book Science and Hypothesis [...]