LibrivoxLibriVox recordings have been available on iTunes for more
than a year, but recently more and more LibriVox recordings
and LV readers have begun to appearing in iTunes podcasts.
Currently there are 21 LibriVox-centered podcasts regularly
featured in the iTunes Store. Take a peek!
Link: Screen view of all things LibriVox on iTunes
Visit the iTunes Store to access the actual podcast links.
Enter LibriVox in the iTunes search field.
LibriVox is doing another national novel writing month (nanowrimo) novel … why not sign up for a chapter here.
background:
During the month of November 2007, LibriVox volunteers write the serial novel The Yellow Sheet together, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month. Each volunteer writes one or more chapter (we do one chapter per day, so 30 chapters in total), and authors record their own chapters (on the day after they’ve written the chapter). At the end of the project, a novel of at least 50,000 words is released in text and audio form on the LibriVox catalogue. Please remember that both your writing and the recording wll be in the public domain.
Well, we did it. We just cataloged our 1,000th book, and for that a huge thank you must go out to everyone who has ever said or written the word LibriVox. Thank you first to the readers for lending their voices to something wonderful; to the Book Coordinators who pull things together; to the Meta Coordinators who get all this audio up on the net; to the Moderators who keep things running smoothly on our forum. And of course the other people: the proof listeners, the catalog development team, the web site designers and fixers, and all the forum volunteers of every stripe.
And more: to our listeners, and supporters, to Dan for keeping the servers running; to the Internet Archive for providing hosting for all our media, which makes it all possible; to Project Gutenberg (and other public domain projects) for liberating all this wonderful text onto the web.
And of course a big thank you to all our families and friends who live with our varying levels of LibriVox addiction.
Thank you thank you thank you…
And below is the “official press release” (or whatever it’s called) …
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LibriVox makes it to 1,000!
LibriVox, the free audio book project has just cataloged its 1,000th book: “Murders in the Rue Morgue”, by Edgar Allan Poe (read by Reynard T. Fox).
LibriVox.org started in August 2005 with a simple objective: “to make all public domain books available as free audio books.” Thirteen people collaborated to make the first recording, Joseph Conrad’s “Secret Agent.”
Two years later, LibriVox has become the most prolific audiobook publisher in the world – we are now putting out 60-70 books a month, we have a catalog of 1,000 works, which represents a little over 6 months of *continuous* audio; we have some 1,500 volunteers who have contributed audio to the project; and a catalog that includes Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” “Moby Dick,” Darwin’s “Origin of the Species,” “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” Einstein’s “Relativity: The Special and General Theory,” Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason,” and other less well-known gems such as “Romance of Rubber” edited by John Martin. We have recordings in 21 languages, and about half of our recordings are solo efforts by one reader, while the other half are collaborations among many readers.
We are always looking for new volunteers! Come join us.
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