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LibriVox Community Podcast #104

Posted on June 25, 2009 by | Posted in about LibriVox, Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: 3 Comments on LibriVox Community Podcast #104

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #104 hosted by Elli and Neeru.
[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community_2009/librivox_community_podcast_104.mp3]
Duration 50:56

We are talking about :

The one complaint of all librivoxateers- librivox is too addictive!

LV invading dreams and making imagination running wild!

How does the (non)addict – Lars Rolander manage to stay un-addicted?

How does a librivoxateer know he/she is addicted?

Test yourself for lv addiction!!! – Name the voice contest

aradlaw’s visit to the YOU KNOW YOU’RE ADDICTED TO LIBRIVOX WHEN… forum.. and his fav. Posts!

Celebrating a LibriVox-addict’s birthday?

Market report

Mic-weather report

We want to thank everybody who contributed… there are just too many of you to mention everybody by name.


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/


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LibriVox: Time, Love & Books

Posted on June 23, 2009 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News, on the web | Comments: 4 Comments on LibriVox: Time, Love & Books

This is my presentation at the BookNetCanada Tech Forum in March, titled: LibriVox: Time, Love & Books. Sorry, there is 1 slide only, for you Powerpoint buffs.

I talk about audiobooks, time acquisition, LibriVox, Google, the link, and the digital archaeology of love. And Hinton, Alberta.

Link to the vid.

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The Dead

Posted on June 16, 2009 by | Posted in about LibriVox, For Volunteers, News, Weekly Picks | Comments: 5 Comments on The Dead

One of the reasons I started LibriVox, I think, was so that I could make an audio recording of “The Dead,” by James Joyce, from his collection Dubliners.

It is a story of such grace and skill; the build up slow and good-humoured and banal, but when that last section finally comes, it contains so much nostalgia, so much melancholy, so much revelation. All of us have had those moments, when what we thought we knew got thrown on its head, our own tiny place in the world gently exposed, and the wide, huge and lonely universe – of which we still remain a part – becomes clear and cold and expansive for just that brief moment.

Almost four years after LibriVox was born, I finally got the courage to record the Dead. I don’t think it’s catalogued quite yet, but here are the mp3s for those who want to listen to an audio version of one of the most beautiful-sad short stories ever written.

Happy Bloomsday.

[Thanks to Kayray for the editing, and to Gesine for making sure I finished on time].

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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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