So we have a whole new batch of books to record, ten of them, and we need your voices.

All books were suggested by volunteers.

Curious about what we’ve chosen? Feel the urge to read out loud? Think that everyone should be listening to great literature on their way to work instead of top 40 hits? Get a kick out of contributing to the good of all humanity?

Well we have just the thing. Check out our Forum in the “readers wanted” section, and post to reserve a chapter of a book you love, or would love to read.

Or comment here and we’ll walk you through it. The world is waiting to hear all this great writing, and you can help.

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Well, here’s some more exciting stuff. We’ve been in contact with the Internet Archive to let them know about LibriVox. Brewster Kahle (listen to his inspiring talk, Universal Access to All Human Knowledge), the founder of the Archive likes LibriVox, has invited us to participate in an event with them.

Along with Yahoo and a number of universities, Archive.org is launching the Open Content Alliance to scan and make available books from the public domain. LibriVox has been asked to make a recording of Henry James’ An International Episode, which if I understand correctly, will be one of the first books in the OCA project.

This will be interesting. Here’s a NYT article about OCA, and a Boing Boing post. And here’s what Brewster Kahle has to say about the initiative:

Is Open Content the next step in the traditions of Open Source and an Open Network? Many people seem to think so (and wouldn’t it be great?). Working with libraries, government institutions, archives, technology companies, web companies- and we all are saying the same thing- it is time to have more great material available on the Internet and to be able to have it be open and free.

Read the rest of his comments.

Exciting times for LibriVox and all you audiolit providers out there!

We were mentioned today on BBC 6, Breakfast Show, Tech Tuesdays with Dave Green … I don’t know if we were on the audio version, but we got a tip on their site:

There’s no denying that books are convenient, but you can also catch up on a few literary classics while doing other things (like driving, or going to the gym) thanks to a new site [librivox] where amateur “podcasters” record chapters of out-of-copyright hits – from Frankenstein to Agatha Christie – in free-to-download MP3 form.