April, 2009

More ideas for listening

Posted on April 30, 2009 by | Posted in about LibriVox, For Volunteers, News, Uncategorized, Weekly Picks | Comments: 10 Comments on More ideas for listening

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim.
Four women leave dreary post-WWI London for a month in an Italian castle. Highly recommended by listeners. Read by Diana Kiesners.

Multilingual Poetry Collection 004.
Poems in Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Portuguese, Russian and Turkish.

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens.
A wonderful recording of one of Dickens’ masterpieces. Read by Mil Nicholson.

The Magic World by E. Nesbit.
An enchanting and timeless collection of short stories by this much-loved author. Read by Ruth Golding.

King Lear by William Shakespeare.
This recording marked the 400th anniversary of the first performance of the play on December 26th 1606, and still holds the Librivox record for a major dramatic work – being completed in just a week.

History of the United States, Vol. I: The Colonial Period by Charles and Mary Beard.
The first volume of this seven-part work by the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. Volumes II – V are also available, and Volume VI is currently being recorded.

Zum ewigen Frieden. Ein philosophischer Entwurf von Immanuel Kant.
In der Abhandlung „Zum ewigen Frieden” wendet Kant die Grundsätze seiner Moralphilosophie auf die Beziehungen zwischen Staaten an. Aufgenommen von Christian Al-Kadi.

The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales
by John Charles Dent.
Spooky stories read by Moira Fogarty.

White Fang by Jack London.
Written as a companion to Jack London’s successful Call of the Wild (1903), this is the tale of a wild dog born in the wild and eventually brought to civilization.

Have fun!

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New additions to the catalog

Posted on April 24, 2009 by | Posted in about LibriVox, For Volunteers, News, Uncategorized | Comments: 5 Comments on New additions to the catalog

Thanks to the good people at Archive.org, we are now beginning to add the new items that you have been waiting for! :D

A number of new works have already been cataloged thanks to our intrepid world-wide and sleep deprived MC volunteers, and they’ll continue to chip away at the backlog just as fast as they can. Keep an eye on the New Releases feed for new audio as it becomes available.

And, gentle listeners, as always LibriVox needs you to point out any problems that may occur with the new process. Please post any observed weirdness in the Error Reports forum.

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LibriVox Community Podcast #101

Posted on April 23, 2009 by | Posted in Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: 3 Comments on LibriVox Community Podcast #101

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #101 hosted by Cori Samuel.
[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community_2009/librivox_community_podcast_101.mp3]
Duration 6:04

Topic: Why nothing’s been catalogued for a while :O

Voices: Peter Yearsley and Anna Simon.

Quote from Douglas Adams (the Brit radio play version, though it’s likely to be in the HHGTTG book too.)

Recently reviewed books at archive.org

Our Staff Picks thread – please also recommend great listens here.


LibriVox Community Podcast – Serving the Librivox community since 2006

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Shows 01 – 16 (all released in 2006) can be found at: http://www.archive.org/details/librivox_community_2006

Shows 17 – 67 (all released in 2007) can be found at: http://www.archive.org/details/librivox_community_2007

Shows 68 – 94 (released in 2008) can be found at http://www.archive.org/details/librivox_community

Shows 95 onwards (released in 2009) will be found at http://www.archive.org/details/librivox_community_2009

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


If you are interested in hosting the Librivox Community Podcast, check out the Librivox Community Podcast wiki page

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Project cataloging temporarily delayed

Posted on April 22, 2009 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News | Comments: 6 Comments on Project cataloging temporarily delayed

Eager listeners may have noticed we haven’t put much new in the catalog recently. Fear not! The mighty armies of LibriVoxateers are still producing hours of audio daily.

However, the Internet Archive (the folks who host LibriVox’s files) are making some changes to the way audio files are derived and presented. Once the dust settles at Archive, we’ll begin cataloging the backlog, and the regular audio wonderfulness we’ve all come to expect and love will resume.

Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available.

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