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November, 2005

Call of the Wild – Chapter 1

Posted on November 7, 2005 by | Posted in Blog, Podcast | Comments: Comments Off on Call of the Wild – Chapter 1




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Winter’s coming — at least up in Canada — so we thought a little taste of the North would be appropriate for our next podcast. A tale of adventure in the cold is next, Jack London’s classic Call of the Wild. Buck, a patrician dog from a Californian estate is kidnapped and sent up to gold-rush era Yukon, where seld dogs are needed for the exhausting work of hauling goods through the ice and snow. Buck battles with wicked men, brutal weather, and and the violent society of his fellow canines to become the most celebrated dog in the north.

mp3 audio file: Call of the Wild, Chapter 1
Written by: Jack London
Read by: Gord Mackenzie
Bit rate: 64 kbps
File size: 11.6 MB
Call of the Wild Internet Archive page (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Wednesday): Gord brings us chapter 2 …

Please feel free to drop us a line to let us know what you think of our recordings, and note, LibriVox is always looking for NEW VOLUNTEERS…

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Nanowrimo

Posted on November 4, 2005 by | Posted in News | Comments: Comments Off on Nanowrimo

So it’s NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth … 60,000 (!!!) participants this year, typing away, trying to write a novel in a month! Wow.

Firstly, lets bask in the glory of such a wonderful project, getting 60,000 people to at least try to write a novel in a month.

Then, let’s consider how many books could be recorded by LibriVox with 5% of the nanowrimo volunteers? well, if all goes according to plan, our current slate of 79 volunteers will record 30 books in 4 months, roughly.

So, doing some rough & dirty calcs, with 5% of 60,000, or 3,000 volunteers, we could get … 3,375 books done in a year.

That’s 3,375…

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Secret Agent – Chapter 13

Posted on November 4, 2005 by | Posted in Podcast | Comments: Comments Off on Secret Agent – Chapter 13

Crack out the champagne, LibriVox completes its innaugural podcast series, of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, with today’s fantastic reading by Paula B, from the Writing Show. To all of you who have contributed so far in making LibriVox happen, a big thank you…And to all of you who have not yet volunteered to make public domain audio versions of public domain books, check out our volunteer page, and see what this is all about.

File: The Secret Agent, Chapter 13
Written by: Joseph Conrad
Read by: Paula B from The Writing Show
Time:
Bit rate: 64 kbps
File size: 10.0 MB
Secret Agent Internet Archive page (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)

Next up: hoooowwwwwwlllllll ….. Call of the Wild.

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Secret Agent – Chapter 12

Posted on November 2, 2005 by | Posted in Podcast | Comments: Comments Off on Secret Agent – Chapter 12

we’re nearing the end of our first book … well done LibriVox volunteers. For today’s installment, Derek Elliot inspires listeners with his rendition of:

File: The Secret Agent, Chapter 12
Written by: Joseph Conrad
Read by: Derek Elliot
Time:
Bit rate: 64 kbps
File size: 34.1 MB
Internet Archive page (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)

Next up: Chapter 13, the last chapter of our first podcast book, read by Paula B. of the Writing Show.

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