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November Clean-Up!

Posted on November 1, 2009 by | Posted in Blog, For Volunteers, News | Comments: 5 Comments on November Clean-Up!

Remember, remember your files in November!
All those sections that people forgot.
So please get recording, it’s very rewarding.
Can you think of a reason why not?

It’s that time again when we look at books that need a final push to get them into the catalogue. All these projects need you. Let’s see how many books we can catalogue in November! Please sign up in the project threads.

Readers: please check your outstanding claims (click on your name in the Magic Window of a project you have volunteered for).

BCs: please see this special post just for you – to help get stalled projects going again!

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Hallo Hallowe’en!

Posted on October 22, 2009 by | Posted in about LibriVox, Blog, For Volunteers, News, Weekly Picks | Comments: 11 Comments on Hallo Hallowe’en!

Ghoulies and ghosties, long-leggedy beasties, and things that go bump in the night. Curl up and enjoy some tasty Hallowe’en treats.

The Book of Hallowe’en by Ruth Edna Kelley, read by Sibella Denton. An account of the origin and history of Hallowe’en, illustrated by selections from ancient and modern poetry and prose.

The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, read by David Barnes. An American family have bought an English stately home, complete with resident ghost – blood-stains, clanking chains and all.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James, read by Peter Yearsley. James’s stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces.

Famous Modern Ghost Stories, compiled by Dorothy Scarborough, is an entertaining selection of stories, read by various readers. As the compiler wrote in 1921: “Life is so inconveniently complex nowadays, what with income taxes and other visitations of government, that it is hard for us to have the added risk of wraiths, but there’s no escaping.”

The Beetle by Richard Marsh certainly counts as being creepy enough for Hallowe’en: a story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting. Narrated from the perspectives of four characters, this is recorded by four different readers.

For a goodly helping of ghosts and witches, how can I possibly leave out the Librivox recording of Shakespeare’s Macbeth?

Nachtstücke von E.T.A. Hoffmann, gelesen von Rainer. Die “Nachtstücke” sind eine Sammlung von unheimlichen Geschichten, die der Romantik zuzuordnen sind.

Animal Ghosts by Elliott O’Donnell, read by Allyson Hester. Supposedly true stories of hauntings by many different kinds of creatures…

And now for a little non-fiction, though these are certainly long-leggedy beasties… The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre, read by various readers.

And, if you finally want to get rid of all those ghouls and get to sleep, how about trying The Ghost Extinguisher by Gelett Burgess, a short story read by Gregg Margarite for one of our many collections of ghost and horror short stories?

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Do you enjoy listening to books?

Posted on August 2, 2009 by | Posted in Blog, News, on the web | Comments: Comments Off on Do you enjoy listening to books?

A young guy named Todd sings the praises of LibriVox on Youtube (FYI the cut-off for public domain in the US is 1923, though it’s a bit more complicated than that):

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New Releases Podcast June 2008

Posted on July 8, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, Blog, New Releases Podcast, News | Comments: 4 Comments on New Releases Podcast June 2008

The newest LibriVox New Releases Podcast, with
select samples of audiobooks released in June ’08 is
now available for download. Hosted by LV volunteer FNH,
this informative, entertaining podcast samples but a few
of the 69 outstanding new releases for June 2008! Listen now!

Podcast 009 – Total time: 18:15

This month, 10 of LV’s 69 new releases are sampled:

Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,
Written by Herself
(Harriet Jacobs)
John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs by Jack London
The Siege of Belgrade by Alaric Alexander Watts
LibriVox Short Story Collection Vol. 030:
“The Tabby Terror” by P. G. Wodehouse
Horror Story Collection 004:
“The Street” by H. P. Lovecraft
Edison’s Conquest of Mars by Garrett P. Serviss
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Willy Shakespeare

LibriVox’s June 2008 New Releases Podcast
is available for immediate download H-E-R-E !

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