LibriVox has been selected by Reader’s Digest as a Best of the Web site (along with literalsystems, podiobooks, storyonline and the Toronto Public Library’s Hear-a-Story).

TechAddress is a site about “Internet startup companies and technology … researching existing product advancements, VC investments, social networking and Web 2.0 news.” They wanted to know a bit about LibriVox, and we obliged: see, interview here.

The folks at Creative Commons did a little write up on LibriVox to be found here:
Featured Commoner: LibriVox.

Qi Luo informs us of a great use for LibriVox, englishhaha.net
Audio files are sourced from your site. We processed them using our system to have audio and text hilighting played in Karaoke style. We will also add dictionary for every word. It will help to make them enjoyable by more people.
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Larry from the poetry podcast Sundown Lounge writes to tell us some LibriVox poems are in his latest show:

I have a section of the show called “Venue Verite” in which I occasionally visit local open mic poetry readings and record some of the poets for podsafe sharing with my global audience. This month I’m taking [...]

Solo read by Rebecca.
Collaborative read by Stephan Möbius, Chris Goringe, Peter Yearsley, Joseph Morris, Kara Shallenberg, Mike Shapiro, Tony Gray, Kristin Luoma, Chip, Kathleen (Kathy) P. King, and Jean Crevier.
NOTE: “War of the Worlds” is under copyright until 2016 in the UK and EU. If you are in these juristictions, then downloading the LibriVox audio [...]

Read by Barbara Bear and Mama Bear.
You haven’t fully experienced the diversity of LibriVox until you have listened to some of the recordings by our younger readers. This recording is a duet by mother and daughter reading one of the classic children’s stories. These two readers bring the book to life together.
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After more than a year of LibriVoxing and articles in lots of fancy newspapers in other countries, and interviews and stories on many radio stations, my hometown newspaper decided to do a story on LibriVox! Unfortunately, the Gazette decided not to put the article online, but the writer put it up on his own site. [...]

Read by Denny Sayers.
Denny’s reading of “Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children” is a great introduction to some of our children’s literature at LibriVox. He does a great job drawing the listener into the story. This classic story has been adapted for children and Denny’s love of children comes through in how he tells the [...]

Read by Kristin LeMoine (Luoma).
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad has been interperted many different ways since its publication in 1899. It has been the inspiration for T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocolypse Now. Given the varying reactions to the text, this reading by Kristin avoids the potential pitfalls of over-interpertation, [...]