Your host this week is Cori Samuel.

Quotes from A.P. Herbert and Dale Carnegie, read by kayray.

I quote Clay Shirky’s presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008 — watch the excellent video, or read his transcript.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, read by earthcalling, and basis of a RemixFight … I chose the bordeauxsteak remix, but there are some other great versions to check out, too!

Quotes from The Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin and The Cornucopia of the Commons by Dan Bricklin, read by Great Plains.
Alfred Whitehead, quoted within Cornucopia, read by simonlarois.

Closing music by Euterpe Archipelago - Danse Russe.

Feedback and other comments welcome!

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Duration 23:01

Your multi-faceted host this week is Jerome.

Part Two of a Character Voices Special, featuring sjmarky (6:07) ceastman (11:30).

Stats (0:45) and a preview of recently-cataloged projects by chocoholic (1:56).

Librivox-themed Parody from chloey (5:17) and Trailer-style Promo from Jerome (14:58).

Jerome lists five favorite things about Librivox (15:37).

A “serious” look into the Blooper Reel (17:14).

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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 get back to normal. Eventually. Stay tuned … and watch this space for news.

All the best,
Hugh.

The first book worked on was Conrad’s The Secret Agent, and by the end of 2005, about 30 titles had been catalogued. As of today, (08/08/08), 1,668 titles, in 22 different languages, have been completed and catalogued, and several other languages are represented within Multi-lingual Collections.

These are made up of the voices of over 2,080 readers and the time and energy also of their supporting book coordinators and proof-listeners. Books from each month of the last year are very briefly sampled … and there’s no rhyme or reason about the choices, I (Cori) just picked titles that were cool or books and authors that I like myself. A note to those who’ve recorded in languages other than English (over 12% of our catalogue!): I’ve done my best to pick out the title and author of all books or poems, but if I’ve instead picked a random piece of speech, please forgive me! (05:40-08:00, 17:08-19:58.) The opening disclaimer-medley was created by David Barnes and includes use of the splendidly echoey Greenwich Foot Tunnel.

Last week, in the podcast and on the LV blog, I asked listeners to say something about what they liked most about LibriVox, and lots of people have! In order of appearance: goosesong (read by David Barnes), Bernadette Schmitt (read by Annika Feilbach), JanniStewart, Carolyn, hugh, E, Rosie, bigbuckhunter, Landii and Mike “McDrunk” (read by Rosalind Wills and John Lieder), Ylre, Shaun C, Scotty and redaer (read by Cori Samuel), mango (speaking for himself), and Hokuspokus (read by Laura Caldwell.) You can hear Hokuspokus wishing LibriVox a happy birthday, along with Anna Simon, Karen Savage, Sirene Darktail and Kara Shallenberg. Finally, a tiny extract from the First Anniversary Show, Jemma Blythe speaking, that I just HAD to include this year too (24:05).

All non-voice sounds provided courtesy of pdsounds.org.

Happy Anniversary to all LibriVox listeners and volunteers!

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #86 - 10th August 2008

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Full show length: 26:26

Search the catalogue by date here: just choose the appropriate Catalog Month from the options.

Search the catalogue by genre here!

Search the catalogue by language here … choose the main language of the work from the dropdown box.

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Your host this week is Cori Samuel.

A Character Voices Special - Part One … inspired by this thread. Mask O’Glass (00:49-05:55) and sjmarky (16:51-31:31) get the ball rolling with some thoughts on the subject. Mark even gives homework! :)

On holiday with ductapeguy (08:11-16:04) — a visit to L. Frank Baum country, including an interview with Karen Fauls-Traynor, Executive Director of the Sullivan Free Library.

The LibriVox Third Anniversary thread can be found here … or post a comment to the blogpost here.

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But “niche market” might be the wrong term for this site. It is not interested in creating a market. Nor is it interested in making a profit. There are no ads on the site and it proudly boasts a budget of $0. In short, it doesn’t pretend to be a place where commercial products are offered. The entire project … is built on a love of literature and a desire to get that literature out to others with similar inclinations. In fact, it is difficult to see how the
“business plan” could be converted into a money-making machine.

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Also glad to see that the …chaotic … spirit with which we undertook Joyce’s Ulysses was grasped and appreciated!

We want to hear from our listeners … what you think the best things about LibriVox are. You could say something about a special recording you’ve listened to. Maybe a book that’s meant a lot to a family member or friend. What you’ve been most surprised to find here in an audio format! If you’re a regular podcast/forum follower, you’ll know how much we’ve grown this year — so, which stats have amazed you the most, as we’ve grown and grown? You could even tell us what public domain texts you’d most like to see started — and finished!

Send any positive comments you like! I’d be happy to receive MP3s (please contact me for details on how to get them to me, or if you respond in your own podcast, let me know if I can excerpt it, with appropriate attribution, in ours.) I’d also love to hear from people in writing, either by PM in the forums, by email (see link below my forum posts), or just add a comment below this post. As a big part of our celebration will be a community podcast, please note that anything sent will be considered in the public domain, because I’d really like to use it within the podcast, with the same attribution that we give all our authors (who include Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Voltaire and Die Gebrüder Grimm).

Hope to hear from you soon! Deadline is noon on the 5th August (to give me editing time. Click the link to check that time in other parts of the world.)

– Cori

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 a public service announcement from Kristin and a brief pi break with Laurie Anne.

Sites quoted: pdsounds
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
Musopen

Karen Savage and Mark Smith sing “My Faith Looks Up to Thee” which is part of the Hymns of the Christian Church project.
Promo time! Sammlung kurzer deutschsprachiger Texte 004 and Write it right

And Just HOW many times can a book be read?? Sean answers this question with help from erichamion

Hugh gives us his thoughts on music in recordings.

Ceastman sings “The Day of Resurection” from the Hymns of the Christian Church project.

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