http://librivox.org free public domain audiobooks Thu, 15 May 2008 19:47:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our friends at SFF Audio have a nice summary of a discussion that comes up once in a while, ebayers selling LibriVox recordings: I really like the attitude of the people over on LibriVox.org. In one thread on the LibriVox forums a first time poster makes note that ‘LibriVox titles are ... http://librivox.org/2008/05/14/blogdesk-librivox-ebay/ LibriVox is a finalist in the Stockholm Challenge, an award & conference put on by the City of Stockholm, which: ...features a six category Award for ICT for Development projects. ICT stands for Information and Communication Technologies and the best projects will win the prestigious Stockholm Challenge trophies and receive a ... http://librivox.org/2008/05/14/librivox-the-stockholm-challenge/ Every once in a while someone writes a really nice blog comment about LibriVox. This is one: In tangential news, we've upped production approximately 6000% in the past couple weeks, with a couple neat discoveries. First of all, http://librivox.org is a free source for public domain recordings of public domain books. Now, ... http://librivox.org/2008/05/13/blogdesk-nice-comment/ WHAT IS IT? pdsounds is like LibriVox for audio-other-than-text. Go there to find recordings of babies sneezing, cats purring and fireworks exploding. It's all dedicated to the public domain, and therefore is available for people to use in all sorts of ways. Sounds from there make regular appearances in my ... http://librivox.org/2008/05/04/pdsounds-challenge/ test. http://librivox.org/2008/05/02/test/ Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #79 - 24th April 2008[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community/librivox_community_podcast_79.mp3] Duration 12:18 Your host this week is Cori Samuel. Voices for the Addicted: musicmaiden, russiandoll, gypsygirl and Cloud Mountain. Please feel free to share your stories in that thread too. New Projects Launch Pad - chocoholic explains all. What ... http://librivox.org/2008/04/24/librivox-community-podcast-79/ What great feedback this is: Dear Kayray ....I really am happy to send you this message ,since you are one of our favourite reader of the librivox.Me and my friends live in one of the nations in Africa,namely the proud and never colonized country Ethiopia.Though we are materially poor we enjoy ... http://librivox.org/2008/04/13/emaildesk-praise-for-kayray/ Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #78 - 10th April 2008[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community/librivox_community_podcast_78.mp3] Duration 18:42 Your host this week is Cori Samuel. Original thoughts by AmethystA and mlemmons. Excerpts from: Emma by Jane Austen - section read by kayray Bleak House by Charles Dickens - section read by asy Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - ... http://librivox.org/2008/04/10/librivox-community-podcast-78/ Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #77 - 3rd April 2008[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community/librivox_community_podcast_77.mp3] Duration 20:52 Your host this week is Cori Samuel. Some LV stat-stuff, admittedly more random than usual. The oldest known recording of the human voice -- from 1860. Please note this is licenced under a Creative Commons copyright. Please ... http://librivox.org/2008/04/03/librivox-community-podcast-77/ Listen to the this week's Librivox Community Podcast Show #76 [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community/librivox_community_podcast_76.mp3] Duration: 21:48 Host: Great Plains 0:00 -- Daniel rambles about acoustics 10:45 -- Excerpt from Twelfth Night 11:02 -- Stats intro 11:24 -- Stats read by Helen Elsbeth 13:19 -- New users 13:45 -- According to Wikipedia (music: National Anthem of the Soviet Union as ... http://librivox.org/2008/03/28/librivox-community-podcast-76/