September, 2006

Weekly Picks: Call of the Wild by Jack London

Posted on September 30, 2006 by | Posted in Uncategorized, Weekly Picks | Comments: 1 Comment on Weekly Picks: Call of the Wild by Jack London

Read by Gordon Mackenzie, Kristen McQuillin, Jean O’Sullivan, and Miette.

A considerable portion of projects in our catalog here at LibriVox are what we call collaborative works. These are completed works that have been read by multiple people, often one person to each chapter or two. If you’re unfamiliar with these collaborative works, Call of the Wild by Jack London is a great place to start. The four readers that contributed to this book (Gordon Mackenzie, Kristen McQuillin, Jean O’Sullivan, and Miette) all do a wonderful job lending their own voice and style to a great classic. Each reader presents the story in a slightly different way, reflecting the great diversity at LibriVox.

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What is this? Every week the volunteers at Librivox pick a different recording to present to our listeners. The spotlighted recordings vary from week to week in order to call attention to the variety of works available here at Librivox and to show how much we appreciate all the effort and work our readers put into each project. The featured selection may be poetry, novels, short stories or non-fiction. All of them can be found within our growing catalog and are available for download. Want to learn more?

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Librivox Community Podcast 3

Posted on September 26, 2006 by | Posted in Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: 1 Comment on Librivox Community Podcast 3

LC Community Podcast 03
Time: 11:41
Date: September 28, 2006
Listen to Librivox Community Podcast #3 hosted by Jim Mowatt. [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community_2006/librivox_community_podcast_03.mp3]
Location: Cambridge, UK
20-second project recruitment ads
– 20 Years After, Alexandre Dumas, Kristin Luoma/LeMoine
Quiz with software prizes
– Name title of work and reader
New members
Reminder: LV only records published works
Quiz part 2
LibriVox Stats by TBOL3
20-second project recruitment ads
– Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier (history of Canada), Starlite
– Universal Declaration of Human Rights, multi-language, earthcalling
– Oliver Twist, Stephan, Proof-listeners wanted
Quiz part 3
Bloopers mix – with Anna


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random note from listener

Posted on September 26, 2006 by | Posted in News | Comments: Comments Off on random note from listener

From LC in the UK:

Thanks again for many happy listening hours; you are all fantastic. It is wonderfully like listening at bedtime as a child. And it makes my day swish by. I really like the variety of books, too. It’s a pleasant image, of so many different people browsing through the virtual library, each picking something they really enjoy and want you to know about.

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Weekly Picks: The Duplicity of Hargraves by O. Henry

Posted on September 21, 2006 by | Posted in Uncategorized, Weekly Picks | Comments: 2 Comments on Weekly Picks: The Duplicity of Hargraves by O. Henry

Read by William Coon.

This week we present William Coon reading the story of the Duplicity of Hargraves by O. Henry. In this short story you’ll hear the very funny tale of Major Pendleton Talbot “of Mobile sir” in which William personifies the ante-bellum southern noble so well. William gives us a wonderful reading of a greatly amusing story. Listen to the whole story and find out exactly why Hargraves is so openly said to be duplicitous.

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What is this? Every week the volunteers at Librivox pick a different recording to present to our listeners. The spotlighted recordings vary from week to week in order to call attention to the variety of works available here at Librivox and to show how much we appreciate all the effort and work our readers put into each project. The featured selection may be poetry, novels, short stories or non-fiction. All of them can be found within our growing catalog and are available for download. Want to learn more?

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