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LibriVox & the Stockholm Challenge

Posted on May 14, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News | Comments: 2 Comments on LibriVox & the Stockholm Challenge

LibriVox is a finalist in the Stockholm Challenge, an award & conference put on by the City of Stockholm, which:

…features a six category Award for ICT for Development projects. ICT stands for Information and Communication Technologies and the best projects will win the prestigious Stockholm Challenge trophies and receive a 5.000 Euro stipend… An extended program of workshops, conference, study visits and social gatherings will bring together the most inspiring ICT entrepreneurs, researchers and students from all over the world to share experiences and knowledge.

Our friends at Project Gutenberg (maybe you’d like to donate? to them) were kind enough to provide some financial support for travel, so I’ll be attending the event along with LibriVox’s resident philosopher, D.E. Wittkower.

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emaildesk: praise for kayray

Posted on April 13, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News | Comments: 7 Comments on emaildesk: praise for kayray

What great feedback this is:

Dear Kayray ….I really am happy to send you this message ,since you are one of our favourite reader of the librivox.Me and my friends live in one of the nations in Africa,namely the proud and never colonized country Ethiopia.Though we are materially poor we enjoy here too much for the kind of calm civilization ,which exists here.We always listen,repetitevely,your recordings of “Letters of two brides” and we are impressed by your sweet and impressful voice which you arouse and ignite our passion for classic pieces like this.Please our dear lots people here in Ethiopia have started knowing you,we all are your fans and don’t hesitate to send us reply.We love you our dear sister!!!!! farewell
Voices from Africa

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Toronto Star on LibriVox

Posted on February 25, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, in the press, News | Comments: 2 Comments on Toronto Star on LibriVox

Michael Geist has an article in the Toronto Star about book 2.0 projects. The two projects cited are Evan Prodromou’s Wikitravel Press, and LibriVox.
About LibriVox, he says:

Canadians are also playing a leading role in reshaping the creation of audiobooks. Hugh McGuire, a Montreal-based writer and Web developer, established LibriVox in August 2005. The site is also based on concept of Internet collaboration. In this instance, LibriVox volunteers create voice recordings of chapters of books that are in the public domain. The resulting audio files are posted back on to the Internet for free.

The LibriVox project, which does not have an annual budget, has succeeded in placing more than 1,200 audio books on the Internet, including Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, works from Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and hundreds more.

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Librivox New Releases Podcast 7 • Nov 2007

Posted on January 12, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, New Releases Podcast, News, Podcast | Comments: Comments Off on Librivox New Releases Podcast 7 • Nov 2007

LibriVox New Release Podcast for audiobooks
released in Nov. 2007 is now available from Archive.org.
Hosted by LibriVox volunteer Alan Drake.
To subscribe please use this FeedBurner link:
or Right click HERE to download New Releases Podcast 006.

The New Releases Podcast is a preview of the LibriVox.org newest free audiobooks. LibriVox is an online volunteer community dedicated to producing free public-domain audiobooks. The LibriVox New Releases Podcast is a relaxed, leisurely way to sample the newest LibriVox audiobooks without having to download a series of large, individual audio files.

• New Releases Podcast 7 for November 2007

Host: Alan Drake
Length: 53:12
Size: 38.7 MB
Royalty Free Music: GarageBand’sFirst Snow Fall Loop
Software: Created in GarageBand 4 on a 2.4 GHz Intel iMac

00:00 • Welcome and comments about LibriVox

01:25 • New Fiction and Short Works
• Short Story Collections – Various — Selected by LibriVox volunteers
• His Last Bow – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
——— Preview: 02:25
• The Lost World – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
——— Preview: 03:42
• It Happened In Egypt – Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
• Dear Enemy – Jean Webster
• Short Science Fiction Collections 001 & 002
• Bread Overhead – Fritz Leiber
——— Preview: 06:21
• The Return – H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire
——— Preview: 08:15
• The First Men in the Moon – H.G. Wells
——— Preview: 11:10
• Bartleby the Scrivener – Herman Melville
• Mike: A Public School Story – P. G. Wodehouse
——— Preview: 12:42
• A Master of Mysteries – L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace
• North and South, Part 2 – Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
• Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
• The Shadows – George MacDonald
• Horror Story Collection 002 – Various Authors
——— Preview: 17:42
• The Golden Age – Kenneth Grahame
• Insomnia Collection, Vol. 1 – Various Auhors

20:49 • New Non-Fiction
• The Right Way to Do Wrong – Harry Houdini
——— Preview: 20:54
• Selected Letters of Beethoven – Ludwig van Beethoven
• Peter the Great – Jacob Abbott
——— Preview: 23:02
• Far Away and Long Ago – W.H. Hudson
• Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke – Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma
——— Preview: 26:03

28:16 • Historical Works
• Legends of the Jews, Volume 1 – Ginzberg, Louis, 1873-1953
• History of the United States, Vol. 3 – Charles A. Beard
and Mary Ritter Beard
——— Preview: 28:39
• History of England from the Accession of James II – (Volume 2, Chapter 07) – Thomas Babington Macaulay
• Chronicles of Canada Volume 8 – The Great Fortress : A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 –
• Who Was Who: 5000 BC – 1914 – Irwin Leslie Gordon
• Richard of Jamestown: A Story of the Virginia Colony – James Otis

34:15 • Children’s Books
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
——— Preview: 34:18
• Raggedy Ann Stories – Johnny Gruelle
——— Preview: 37:38
• Grandma Janice’s Poems and Stories
• Wild Life in Woods and Fields – Arabella B. Buckley
——— Preview: 39:59

00:00 • Poetry
• Short Poetry Collection 052 and 53
• The Bab Ballads – W. S. Gilbert

41:33 • Samples of New Philosophy and Religion
• The Golden Sayings of Epictetus – Epictetus
• The Apology of Socrates – Plato
• Essays in Radical Empiricism – William James
• The Theory of Social Revolutions – Brooks Adams
• Principles of Economics, Book 1: Preliminary Survey by Alfred Marshall
• Wage-Labour and Capital – Karl Marx
——— Preview: 45:06
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding – David Hume
• Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible Part One and Part Two – Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
——— Preview: 46:41

48:34 • Audiobooks Languages Other Than English
• Max Havelaar Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company.
In Dutch, by Multatuli
——— Preview: 48:38
• Ein Sommer in London – Theodor Fontane (German)
• Onder Moeders Vleugels – Alcott, Louise M
• 1001 Nights translated into French by Antoine Galland
• Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre – Johanna Spyri (German)

00:00 • Closing remarks

Listen now: [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/LibrivoxNewReleasesPodcast/lv_new_releases006_nov2007.mp3]

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