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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!)

Stats Thursday

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

So for the past several weeks, we’ve been adding about 25-ish new volunteers to the forum a week. Then last week, an article came out in wired.com, and then got picked up elsewhere, including the German site heise online.
Well, the result was 85 new volunteers this week, and a hectic, busy time trying to manage [...]

LibriVox flickr badge

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

We now have a flickr badge … scroll down and look at the photos to the right. Any public photos tagged “librivox” on flickr will turn up here … so take a pic of your studio, some old books we’re doing, libraries … anything you like, and you’ll see it there eventually.
Oh if you don’t [...]

LibriVox – Poetry experiment

Monday, November 14th, 2005

OK, here’s an experiment. We’ve posted a poem in the forum (by William Blake), and we’re asking everyone and anyone to record a version of it. We’ll leave the poem open for a week.
This is a good way to cut your teeth if you haven’t recorded anything yet, and want to try. It’s [...]