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BookList’s Audiobooker on LibriVox

Posted on August 12, 2009 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News, on the web | Comments: 12 Comments on BookList’s Audiobooker on LibriVox

There is an interview up over at BookList’s Audiobooker Blog, with Mary Burkey:

The home of 2,557 audiobooks in 26 languages – all FREE. Hugh McGuire launched the volunteer-effort audiobook publishing model LibriVox on August 10th, 2005. Hugh is this week’s Inside the Audiobook Studio guest, ready to share the background on this amazing project. Want more information on LibriVox? Subscribe to the Community Podcast here. Have you always wanted to be an audiobook narrator – or perhaps want to challenge students to develop their oral performance skills? Are you an aspiring audio editor and need some practice? Try your talents by becoming a LibriVox volunteer! Want to learn how to slow down the LibriVox audiobooks? Searching for a list of recommended best FREE LibriVox titles? You’ll find answers to all things LibriVox on the LibriVox Wiki. [more…]

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LibriVox’s Fourth Anniversary (and Community Podcast #106)

Posted on August 10, 2009 by | Posted in about LibriVox, For Volunteers, Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: 4 Comments on LibriVox’s Fourth Anniversary (and Community Podcast #106)

It’s our Fourth Anniversary! LibriVox started with an optimistic blog post on 10th August, 2005 … and then grew and grew and …We now have a catalog of 2,557 books in 26 languages. And our catalog is growing every day.

You too can volunteer! Or perhaps just pop in to say hi on the forum.

And you can join the celebration by Listening to the LibriVox Community Podcast #106 hosted by Esther.

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community_2009/librivox_community_podcast_106.mp3]

Duration: 49:40

Intro by Esther with thoughts from Lars Rolander and a poetry collage by David Lawrence.

A few thoughts from Original Member Kara Shallenberg and Founder Hugh McGuire.

A special presentation by Neeru and Eli!

More thoughts from Ryan, Julie and Joy!

Another of Ruthie’s infamous arrangements…

Cori closes us off with one of her famous disclaimers.

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

Recent past and present Librivox Community Podcast files can be found at our spot on:
Archive.org

Archived shows for previous years can be found at:
2006, 2007 and 2008.

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

Community Podcasts have been downloaded 11,238 times so far this year!

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July: mmm… summer, strawberries and audiobooks in the sun.

Posted on August 1, 2009 by | Posted in about LibriVox, For Volunteers, News, Uncategorized, Weekly Picks | Comments: 1 Comment on July: mmm… summer, strawberries and audiobooks in the sun.

What delicious offerings did we have for you in July? A wide range, as usual:

“Doc” Smith’s space opera Triplanetary, eagerly awaited by all fans of reader Mark F. Smith.

The Sea Wolf and The Scarlet Plague by Jack London.

Eight recordings for children, including By Pond and River by Arabella Buckley, Baum’s The Magic of Oz and The Magic City by E. Nesbit.

Religion and philosophy, including St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, Part Two, and The Autobiography of Madame Guyon, French mystic and advocate of Quietism.

101 years after the opening of Maria Montessori’s first Children’s House we have recorded the first English translation of The Montessori Method.

Volume One of one of the longest novels in the English Language the epistolary Clarissa by Samuel Richardson.

Stephen Leacock’s Nonsense Novels.

Murder mystery Madame Midas by Fergus Hume, always a popular author here.

The strange and wonderful The First Book of Urizen by William Blake, and the equally strange and wonderful post-apocalyptic classic After London by Richard Jefferies.

As usual, of course, there are short stories, poetry, Sci-Fi (Collections 20 and 21), and Ghost and Horror stories.

We have catalogued works in Chinese, Hebrew, Swedish, Dutch and German.

And much, much more: for all works catalogued during July, please see this page.

Next month, during which we celebrate Librivox’s 4th birthday, I shall return to some lesser-known recordings from our first four years.

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June is bustin’ out all over!

Posted on July 1, 2009 by | Posted in about LibriVox, For Volunteers, News, Weekly Picks | Comments: 2 Comments on June is bustin’ out all over!

We are pleased to announce that June 2009 was our third most productive month ever, with 93 recordings added to the catalogue.

You may see all the new additions here.

June provided us with a veritable feast of recordings, including:

And lots, lots more. Have fun!

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