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July: mmm… summer, strawberries and audiobooks in the sun.

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

What delicious offerings did we have for you in July? A wide range, as usual:
“Doc” Smith’s space opera Triplanetary, eagerly awaited by all fans of reader Mark F. Smith.
The Sea Wolf and The Scarlet Plague by Jack London.
Eight recordings for children, including By Pond and River by Arabella Buckley, Baum’s The Magic of Oz and [...]

More ideas for listening

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim.
Four women leave dreary post-WWI London for a month in an Italian castle. Highly recommended by listeners. Read by Diana Kiesners.
Multilingual Poetry Collection 004.
Poems in Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Portuguese, Russian and Turkish.
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens.
A wonderful recording of one of Dickens’ masterpieces. [...]

New additions to the catalog

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Thanks to the good people at Archive.org, we are now beginning to add the new items that you have been waiting for! :D
A number of new works have already been cataloged thanks to our intrepid world-wide and sleep deprived MC volunteers, and they’ll continue to chip away at the backlog just as fast as they [...]

New staff picks

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

A new selection of recordings for you to try!
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
2009 is the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth. This is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal, read by various readers.
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Different characters (and readers) in [...]

Multilingual Poetry Collection Vol. 010

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Multilingual Poetry Collection 010
by Various
In LibriVox’s Multilingual Poetry Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain poems in languages other than English (or in specific regional accents in English). (Summary by David Barnes).

LibriVox’s Multilingual Poetry Collection 010 Internet Archive page
Zip file of the entire bookRSS feed · Subscribe in iTunes
Total running time: 1:02:45

mp3 and ogg [...]

Librivox Community Podcast #84

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #84 – 24th July 2008
Duration 27:52
Your host this week is Esther “Starlite” on the forums.
Introduction with Peter Yearsly singing
Mystery singer. Can you guess who is singing the LibriVoxateers song? (Ok all you oldies already know)
Pirates of Penzance. Peter and Henry, Choral Ladies.
Interview with Cori interrupted by [...]

Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Early Kings of Norway
by Thomas Carlyle
“The Icelanders, in their long winter, had a great habit of writing; and were, and still are, excellent in penmanship. It is to this fact, that any little history there is of the Norse Kings and their old tragedies, crimes and heroisms, is almost all due. The Icelanders, it seems, [...]

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Librivox Community Podcast 31

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Show 31 is now available from Archive.org
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Length: 27:12
Size: 31.1MB
Host: Cloud Mountain
1. Introduction: A fireside chat with Cloud Mountain.
2. Handy Forum Tips
3. Excerpts from recently released works.
- Red Shadows by Robert E. Howard: Read by Paul Seigel
http://librivox.org/red-shadows-by-robert-e-howard/
- Around the World in 80 Days [...]

Librivox Community Podcast 30

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Librivox Community Podcast 30
Show 30 is now available from Archive.org
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Length: 17:11
Size: 15.7MB
Host: Cloud Mountain and Ductapeguy
1. Song: what are we waiting for
2. March Madness Stats
3. Beautiful Soup – a montage of extracts from poem of the week.
4. Completed works in the last week.
5. Interview [...]