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 [...]

Large parts of the northern hemisphere are covered in snow. What better reason to sit down with a blanket and hot tea and enjoy 10 gems from our catalog.
Wearing socks and scarves is always a good idea to keep warm. Why not make them yourself, using our recording of Cornelia Mee’s Exercises in Knitting? [...]

2011 has just begun, and we have an exciting clean slate in front of us. Let’s fill it with 10 gems straight from our catalog:
The New Year ususally comes with champagne and the resolution to make the New Year also a Better one. Find out if the tolling of The Chimes in Charles Dickens’ [...]

Today LibriVox welcomed the 4000th project to her catalog.
It’s: The Battle of Marathon by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Read by Nathan
Dedicated Proof-Listener: Betty M.
Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: Nadine Eckert-Boulet
All details are on the catalog page.
You’ll find all other 3999 books over here.