LibrivoxBienvenus aux francophones! There is a Librivox article in Les Echos, French sister publication to the Financial Times. Written by Laetitia Mailhes. Nice closing para:
Que les curieux aillent donc écouter le premier chapitre du ” Tour du monde en 80 jours “de Jules Verne. Le plaisir simple de se laisser conter une histoire par une voix inconnue à l’intonation claire et à la diction irréprochable est irrésistible.
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We’ve been selected as one of the top 100 undiscovered web sites by PC Mag!
Audiobooks are ridiculously expensive: The latest “Harry Potter” title lists at $80 on CD. Librivox, however, provides pod fodder for free. The site features a collection of public-domain books read by volunteers—and anyone can volunteer. The audio quality is good (MP3s at 64 or 128 Kbps, as well as OGG Vorbis files). Some narrators are better than others—some may have listened to a little too much NPR—but almost everything is at least decent, and some performances are quite good. The collection (a bit more than 800 Project Gutenberg works so far) is a bit of a hodgepodge, with everything from Walt Whitman to Edgar Rice Burroughs. You’ll have to wait about a hundred years for The Deathly Hallows, though.
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I wonder if we can crack the list of top 100 discovered web sites next year?
Yes, we’ve reached the big five-oh.
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Shownotes
This week’s show is hosted by Sean McGaughey (ductapeguy). The theme of this week’s show is Plumbing or Unsung Heroes: The Librivox Technical Team.
We’re very sorry, the original posting of this week’s New Releases Podcast linked to the July 21 podcast. The link has been corrected here. We are sorry that you had to download this one twice.
LV’s New Release Podcast
18 Aug 07 is now available from Archive.org.
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Host: Alan Drake
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The New Releases Podcast is LibriVox’s twice-a-month preview of new audiobooks available for free at LibriVox.org. LibriVox is an online volunteer community dedicated to producing free public-domain audiobooks.
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• New Release Podcast for 18 August 2007
Title: The Third LibriVox New Releases Podcast
Host: Alan Drake
Size: 35.9 MB
Length: 39:10
Music: Cloud Mountain – created in GarageBand
• The line-up, with time markers…
00:00 • Welcome
00:45 • Comments about LibriVox
01:52 • New Fiction and Short Works
• Samples of New Fiction:
02:36 • The Old Man in the Corner by Baroness Orczy
05:19 • Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
07:12 • Dream Days, by Kenneth Grahame
10:22 • Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
12:57 • The Faith of Men Jack London
15:32 • The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley
17:38 • The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
• Samples of New Non-Fiction
20:34 The Story of Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane
23:10 Roughing It by Mark Twain
• Samples of New Poetry
25:43 • Feminine by Henry Cuyler Bunner
26:30 • The Nights Remember by Sara Teasdale
• Samples of New Philosophy and Religion
27:39 • 1 John ASV by John (Bible)
30:09 • Walking by Henry David Thorough
• Samples of an Audiobooks in a Language Other Than English
34:53 • “Les liaisons dangereuses” by de Choderlos de Laclos
32:54 • All’s Well that Ends Well – Oh Were That All (Act 1, Scene 1)
36:58 • Final comments
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Listen now: [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/LibrivoxNewReleasesPodcast/lv_new_releases_18_Aug_07.mp3]
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