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A flood of new audiobooks for you

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

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 [...]

Problems with newly catalogued items

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

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 [...]

Sorry – the forum is down – and back up!

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

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 [...]

Problems with Archive.org – Stay Tuned

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Hello Everyone,
We host all our audio files with the wonderful archive.org. The last couple of days, we’ve been getting numerous reports of LirbiVox books being unavailable, unfindable, or undownloadable. We are looking into it with archive.org – but don’t panic! We’ve had similar issues in the past, and after some hiccups, we expect things will [...]

CD Covers

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

Did you know that we have an increasing number of volunteer-created album art and printable CD covers? You’ll find the entire collection here:
http://www.archive.org/details/librivox_cd_covers
We have a couple of useful generic covers suitable for any book, as well as covers designed specifically for such works as

Beowulf
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Huckleberry Finn
Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Pride and Prejudice
The Communist [...]

Merry … Season!

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

A day late, but if you’re up for some more Christmasy stuff, here’s a nice list of great stuff for you:

The wonderful 2006 Christmas Carol Collection
2006 Christmas Short Works Collection
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
Old Christmas Carol, by Washington Irving
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit From St. Nicholas), by Clement C. Moore

Have a wonderful [...]

LibriVox listed on Gutenberg pages

Friday, October 6th, 2006

A wonderful new development: LibriVox recordings are starting to be added to Project Gutenberg’s catalog pages. It’s just getting started, and kinks are getting worked out of the process, but here is the official first gutenberg catalog page, with LibriVox audio, provided in many different fomats, including speex!
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. [...]

LibriVox & net neutrality

Monday, June 5th, 2006

LibriVox is not a political organization. We are based on some basic fndamental principles (see here), but other than that we steer clear of politics. We don’t want politics to distract from our simple objective: to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio on the internet.
However, Net Neutrality [...]

Happy Birthday to Betsie

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

A special happy birthday to Betsie, aka Thistlechick, a tireless LibriVox cataloger, moderator, and meta coordinator!

New Completed Books

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

We’ve had some great additions to the catalog recently:

Joy Chan read Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress

Steve Andersen brought Twain to life with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

And we released LibriVox Short Poetry Collection I, selected by LibriVox volunteers.

We’ve got another one in the catalog queue (hint: it’s Finnish!)