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Librivox Community Podcast 28

Posted on March 23, 2007 by | Posted in Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: 1 Comment on Librivox Community Podcast 28

Librivox Community Podcast 28

Show 28 is now available from Archive.org
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Length: 26:40
Size : 24.4MB
Host : Jim Mowatt with sidekick Sean

1. Recently cataloged items – Catfitz
2. Interview with Chocoholic
3. What Sean’s been up to (more info on his blog)
4. Clip – Librivox mentioned on Canadian Podcast Buffet
5. Clip – Librivox mention on Buffalo Live Music Podcast.
6. Favourite Reader – Sean chooses JemmaBlythe and plays her reading of Frosts, ‘The Road Less Travelled’
7. How did you choose your nickname?
8. 499th Project cataloged – The Scarlet Pimpernel
9. 500th project cataloged – The Getting of Wisdom.

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idea for libraries & librarians

Posted on March 22, 2007 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News | Comments: 7 Comments on idea for libraries & librarians

Here’s an idea:

Download a bunch of LibriVox books (best perhaps to sample to hear the quality … solo books will be safest, since you’ll know more or less the quality of the whole book by listening to a bit of one chapter).

then put those mp3s into itunes on one of your computers (PC or mac)… and offer a service to upload our books to patrons’ ipods … or to transfer the mp3s to any other mp3 player, or even to USB memory keys.

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Distributed Proofreaders – 10k titles

Posted on March 22, 2007 by | Posted in News, on the web | Comments: Comments Off on Distributed Proofreaders – 10k titles

The wonderful wonderful people at Distributed Proofreaders (the group that does the proof-reading for much of our Gutenberg source texts) have reached a milestone: 10,000 books proof-read.

Sign-up here to help them out.

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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

Posted on March 17, 2007 by | Posted in Blog, News | Comments: Comments Off on Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Volunteer Sean McKinley has recorded The Collected Works of Saint Patrick for us:

St. Patrick’s Breastplate – This prayer is attributed to St. Patrick and his diciples. It is written with some celtic pagan elements, but is definitely a Christian prayer asking God for protection through daily life.

A Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus – Patrick writes this letter to excommunicate the soldiers of Coroticus’ army who pillaged villages in Ireland and forced many Christian converts into slavery.

Confession – A short autobiography by St. Patrick who tells of being abducted into slavery and taken to Ireland, the growth of his faith, his ministry as a bishop in ordaining many priests and baptising thousands of people, and a trial where he had to defend himself against his accusers. (Summary by Sean)

You can download these recordings from our catalog page:
http://librivox.org/the-collected-works-of-saint-patrick-by-saint-patrick/

Remember to wear green today :)

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