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LibriVox Recommendations

Posted on December 26, 2007 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News, on the web | Comments: 17 Comments on LibriVox Recommendations

We occasionally get people asking for recommendations. MetaFilter has a thread collecting some good ones:
LibriVox Recommendations from MetaFilter.

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Librivox New Releases Podcast 6 • Oct 2007

Posted on December 22, 2007 by | Posted in about LibriVox, Blog, New Releases Podcast, News, Podcast | Comments: Comments Off on Librivox New Releases Podcast 6 • Oct 2007

LibriVox New Release Podcast for audiobooks released
in Oct. 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 6 for October 2007

Host: Alan Drake
Length: 39:08
Size: 35:8 MB
Royalty Free Music: GarageBand’s Jaracanda Loop
Software: Created in GarageBand 4 on a 2.4 GHz Intel iMac

00:00 • Welcome and comments about LibriVox

01:21 • New Fiction and Short Works
• Short Story Collection 19 – Various — Selected by LibriVox volunteers
• The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Molly Make-Believe – Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
——— Preview: 01:45
• Howards End – E.M. Forster
• Little Eve Egarton – Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
• Kim – Rudyard Kipling
• The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Sun – Augusta Groner
——— Preview: 04:17
• Murder at Bridge – Anne Austin
• Won by Crime – Frank Pinkerton
• Wives and Daughters – Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Sea Hawk – Rafael Sabatini
• Star Born – Andre Norton
• Fanny Herself – by Edna Ferber
——— Preview at 08:01
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue – Edgar Allan Poe
——— Preview: 10:36
• Rudder Grange – Frank Stockton
——— Preview: 12:24
• An Antarctic Mystery or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields – Jules Verne
• The Shortstop – Zane Grey

14:46 • Samples of New Non-Fiction
• A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy – Ida Laura Pfeiffer
• The Loss of the S. S. Titanic – Lawrence Beesley
• Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 2 by Various Authors
• Democracy in America Vol. I by Alexis de Tocqueville
——— Preview: 16:05
• South! Shackleton’s Last Expedition – Ernest Shackleton
• Squirrels and other Fur-Bearers – John Burroughs
• This Country of Ours, Part 1 – H.E. Marshall
• The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters – Logan Marshall
——— Preview: 19:12
• The Fighting Governor : A Chronicle of Frontenac – Charles William Colby
• The Insurrection in Dublin – James Stephens
——— Preview: 21:38
• On the Elementary Electrical Charge – Robert Millikan
• The Art of War – Sun Tzu
• Eleven Theses on Feuerbach – Karl Marx
• Miscellaneous Essays – Thomas de Quincey

24:33 • Audiobooks for Children
• The Goody-Naughty Book – Sarah Cory Rippey
——— Preview: 24:41
• The House that Jack Built – Unknown
• The Burgess Bird Book for Children – Thornton W. Burgess
• Greylorn – Keith Laumer

29:38 • Samples of New Philosophy and Religion
• The Book of Lieh-Tzu by Lieh-Tzü
• The Revelation to Saint John – from the American Standard Version

30:44 • Samples of New Poetry
• Holy Sonnets – John Donne
——— Preview: 30:51
• Tender Buttons – Gertrude Stein
• Short Poetry Collections 050 & 051 – “The Wicked Zebra” & “The Owl”
——— Preview: 33:11
• October – Paul Laurence Dunbar
• The Ghosts’ Moonshine – Thomas Lovell Beddoes
• The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver – Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Sister Rosa: A Ballad – Percy Bysshe Shelley
• In a Garden – Amy Lowell
• The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman – Fay Inchfawn

36:18 • Audiobooks in a Language Other Than English
• Italian: Favole di Jean de La Fontaine, libro 12 – translated by Emilio de Marchi

36:52 • Dramatic Works
• Shakespeare Monologues, Volume 4 – William Shakespeare
——— Preview from Julius Caesar: 36:52

37:50 Closing remarks

Listen now: [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/LibrivoxNewReleasesPodcast/lv_new_releases006_oct2007.mp3]

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first LV youtube vid? shopenhauer…

Posted on November 26, 2007 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News, on the web | Comments: 3 Comments on first LV youtube vid? shopenhauer…

As far as I know, this is the first youtube vid using LibriVox audio. This is DE. Wittkower reading Schopenhauer’s Studies in Pessimism. Music is Richard Wagner’s Rheingold. I’m not sure the providence of the images.

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Librivox Releases its 100th Non-English-Language Audiobook!

Posted on November 12, 2007 by | Posted in about LibriVox, Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: 1 Comment on Librivox Releases its 100th Non-English-Language Audiobook!

Max Havelaar, of de koffij-veilingen der Nederlandsche Handel- Maatschappij by Multatuli, read by Anna Simon in Dutch and proof listened by Ans Wink, was released today as the 100th non-English-language LibriVox audiobook.

Congratulations go out to all of you who made this possible, especially the contributers of the previous 99 projects!

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