So, Thursday is becoming stats day. We added another 27 volunteers this week (20% growth from last week), so the LibriVox family is now 157 souls. And though we are still a bit short on completed books — we’ve got 10 — we have a whole host of new projects underway, many of them solo.
We’ve got 10 completed books, 4 poems (many of them multiple recordings), 17 collaborative projects underway, and 32 solo projects on the go. That’s, potentially, 59 books freed into audio for the world. All titles save one are English – Liaisons Dangereuses being our only French project for the moment, but we’d be more than happy to have other non-English books too.
Joyce, Austen, Dostoyevsky, London, Nesbitt, Poe. Ayn Rand, Hawthorn, Dickens. etc. etc.
With all these books rolling in, we’ve started a cataloging and uploading project, with some coders, librarians, and coder-librarians, so it’ll be easier to keep track of what chapters you’ve signed up for, and to find the books you want.
We’ve also tested our site for accessibility for the visually impaired — it seems to pass our testing, does anyone have any expertise on this? If so, we’d be happy for some advice.
We always need more help – in lots of ways. Contact your library about us, talk to your kid’s English teacher. Call your local book club, send an email to a bibliophile friend. More info about volunteering: here.