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February, 2008

Toronto Star on LibriVox

Posted on February 25, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, in the press, News | Comments: 2 Comments on Toronto Star on LibriVox

Michael Geist has an article in the Toronto Star about book 2.0 projects. The two projects cited are Evan Prodromou’s Wikitravel Press, and LibriVox.
About LibriVox, he says:

Canadians are also playing a leading role in reshaping the creation of audiobooks. Hugh McGuire, a Montreal-based writer and Web developer, established LibriVox in August 2005. The site is also based on concept of Internet collaboration. In this instance, LibriVox volunteers create voice recordings of chapters of books that are in the public domain. The resulting audio files are posted back on to the Internet for free.

The LibriVox project, which does not have an annual budget, has succeeded in placing more than 1,200 audio books on the Internet, including Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, works from Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and hundreds more.

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Librivox Community Podcast #72

Posted on February 21, 2008 by | Posted in Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: 2 Comments on Librivox Community Podcast #72

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #72 [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community/librivox_community_podcast_72.mp3]
Duration 13:47

Your slightly-snuffly host this week is Cori Samuel.

1: LeonMire tells us about the ten most recent LibriVox releases.

2: Earthcalling goes a-roaming. Here’s the link you’ll need once you’ve listened!

3: A little numbers comparison … Hugh and Paula talking in late 2005 … luciburg in March 2007 … ExEmGe on 20th Feb 2008.

4: A shout out to Sibella, our first millibrivixen!

5: New LibriVoxer Lise Esch reads the current Weekly Poetry project.

Clapping, whooyeahs and hoorays cribbed from various files at pdsounds.org

Hugh, Paula and Lucy originally starred in Show 27 (15th March, 2007.)

To Subscribe to the Librivox Community Podcast, go to:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LibrivoxCommunityPodcast
or hit this itunes link to get you to the subscribe page
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=203970211

Past and present Librivox Community Podcast files can be found at our spot in Archive.org

Archived shownotes for the Librivox Community Podcast can be found at
http://librivox.org/category/librivox-community-podcast/
and the rss feed for those shownotes is:
http://librivox.org/category/librivox-community-podcast/feed

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Librivox Community Podcast #71

Posted on February 14, 2008 by | Posted in Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: 1 Comment on Librivox Community Podcast #71

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #71 [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community/librivox_community_podcast_71.mp3]
Duration – 11:11

Your invisible friend and host this week is Cori Samuel.

How Do I Love LibriVox? Let Me Count The Ways.

Voices in order of appearance:

Larysa Jaworski (from Multilingual Poetry Vol. 2), various readers of Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and original contributions from Karen Savage, Elaine Hambly, Ezwa, Jc Guan, Sean McGaughey, Kristin Hughes, Jonathan Horniblow.

Music by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, the Romeo and Juliet Overture, played by Skidmore College Orchestra and placed in the public domain at musopen.com. Closing incidental music from a royalty-free Music Beds CD.

To Subscribe to the Librivox Community Podcast, go to:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LibrivoxCommunityPodcast
or hit this itunes link to get you to the subscribe page
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=203970211

Past and present Librivox Community Podcast files can be found at our spot in Archive.org

Archived shownotes for the Librivox Community Podcast can be found at
http://librivox.org/category/librivox-community-podcast/
and the rss feed for those shownotes is:
http://librivox.org/category/librivox-community-podcast/feed

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LibriVox Audiobook New Release Samples

Posted on February 12, 2008 by | Posted in News | Comments: 5 Comments on LibriVox Audiobook New Release Samples

The former LibriVox New Releases Podcast
now takes on a new easy-to-use form!

Individual samples of select LibriVox audiobooks
will now appear soon after a project is released, in
compact form: 2-3 minutes each! Convenient to all!
Think of all the new ways you can use them!

The first batch of samples, from December 2007.
is now available by going directly to ARCHIVE.org.
Check there regularly as the weeks and months progress.
Visit the New Releases Forum topic for details.

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