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Weekly Picks: Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Posted on August 17, 2006 by | Posted in Uncategorized, Weekly Picks | Comments: 1 Comment on Weekly Picks: Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Read by John Greenman.

As the summer draws to a close, let reader John Greenman introduce you to Tom Sawyer, the boy who best represents the freedom and fun of summer. John’s enthusiastic reading complements Mark Twain’s ear for dialog to bring to life the voices of Tom, Huck Finn, Becky Thatcher and the rest. With these characters in your ear, there’s still time for one last summer adventure!

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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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Our Anniversary Special is Complete!!

Posted on August 12, 2006 by | Posted in News | Comments: 3 Comments on Our Anniversary Special is Complete!!

Our Anniversary Special is complete!
Our 1-Year Anniversary Special

Please take a listen. It’s interesting, heart-warming, and hilarious by turns! Thanks to all of our volunteers and especially Maddie, Esther, Alan, Anita, and John, who all worked unbelievably hard to put this amazing Anniversary Special together!

And, of course, another big thank-you to Hugh for starting this whole joyful project one year ago :)

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Weekly Picks: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Posted on August 10, 2006 by | Posted in Uncategorized, Weekly Picks | Comments: 5 Comments on Weekly Picks: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Read by Chip.

Has the summer heat become unbearable? Perhaps you need to cool down with this blood-chilling reading of Irving’s classic tale of a ghostly rider and a meek schoolmaster. Chip’s reading humorously introduces you to the idyllic New England countryside and Ichabod Crane’s attempts to woo the lovely Katrina Van Tassel away from his rival “Brom Bones” Van Brunt. When Ichabod is confronted with a shadowy apparition, Chip’s superb narration will raise goosebumps no matter how hot the weather.

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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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Happy Birthday, LibriVox!

Posted on August 10, 2006 by | Posted in News | Comments: 3 Comments on Happy Birthday, LibriVox!

One year ago today, Hugh McGuire had the brilliant idea of creating some kind of collaborative, public-domain, volunteer-run audiobook project, and LibriVox was born. Happy birthday, LibriVox!

We’ve got some very special projects in the works to commemorate this happy occasion. We should be able to post links very soon, so stay tuned!

later…

Our Anniversary Special is complete!
Our 1-Year Anniversary Special

Please take a listen. It’s interesting, heart-warming, and hilarious by turns! Thanks to all of our volunteers and especially Maddie, Esther, Alan, Anita, and John, who all worked unbelievably hard to put this amazing Anniversary Special together!

And, of course, another big thank-you to Hugh for starting this whole joyful project one year ago :)

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