December, 2005

Psmith in the City – Chapters 19-21

Posted on December 2, 2005 by | Posted in Blog, Podcast | Comments: Comments Off on Psmith in the City – Chapters 19-21

Eileen hosts the wonderful PublicdomainPodcast, one of the first public domain audiolit projects, started right about the same time as LibriVox. I contacted Eileen early in my search for willing Librivox readers, and she jumped in to help out. Over at PDP, you can find Twain, Jules Verne, and Lewis Carroll, among others, and I encourage you to check it out.

Here’s Eileen reading:

Psmith in the City – Chapters 19-21
mp3 audio file: Psmith in the City, Chapter 19-21
Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
Read by: Eileen from PublicdomainPodcast
Bit rate: 64 kbps
Psmith in the City LibriVox catalog page (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Monday): Chapters 22-24 by our tech guru, Chris Goringe.

Please send us an email (librivox AT yahoo D0T ca) to let us know what you think of our recordings, and note, LibriVox is always looking for NEW VOLUNTEERS…

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iTunes New & Notable

Posted on December 2, 2005 by | Posted in in the press, News | Comments: 1 Comment on iTunes New & Notable

Volunteer Irishbell saw us in the “New & Notable” section of iTunes, and catalogger-supreme Kara made a screenshot. See it on our forum, here.

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Psmith in the City – Chapters 16-18

Posted on December 1, 2005 by | Posted in Blog, Podcast | Comments: Comments Off on Psmith in the City – Chapters 16-18

Luke reads:

Psmith in the City – Chapters 16-18
mp3 audio file: Psmith in the City, Chapter 16-18
Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
Read by: Aaron A.
Bit rate: 64 kbps
Psmith in the City LibriVox catalog page (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Friday): Chapters 19-21, read by Eileen of the fabulous Publicdomain Podcast.

Please send us an email (librivox AT yahoo D0T ca) to let us know what you think of our recordings, and note, LibriVox is always looking for NEW VOLUNTEERS…

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Statistics Thursday

Posted on December 1, 2005 by | Posted in For Volunteers, News | Comments: Comments Off on Statistics Thursday

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.

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