Today Dutch Librivoxateers got together to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Librivox. We met in Utrecht in a cafe, we visited the Utrecht University Library and we went to a secondhand bookshop, to look for new material to record.
We took our new books to a volunteer’s home (where we had a lovely dinner) and started recording right away.
We now know the faces behind the voices. We had a great time and next time we hope to meet many more Dutch and Flemish readers.
Here is a link to a photo we made at our visit to the bookshop. From left to right: MsPhelps, Bart, Coenders, Pauline C and Lezer. (Z@p had to leave early.)
2010-10-05: The recording we made is now available: Natuurlijke Historie.
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Dutch fifth anniversary meeting
LibriVox on SFF Audio Podcast
Hot off the press: Jesse and Scott of SFF Audio invited me onto their podcast for a chat. We talk about audiobooks, LibriVox, open collaborative projects, the web and various other things. Here is the link:
LibriVox in AT&T commercial
The cover art to LibriVox’s recording of Moby Dick is currently featuring in an ad campaign by the US telecoms company AT&T.
You can see the ad by clicking here. It was directed by Dennis Liu for the ad agancy BBDO.
You can see the shot of the cover art, created by regular LV sleeve contributor Kate Delaney, a few seconds into the commerical, and if you are really keen-eyed, you can also make out the word “LibriVox”.
LibriVox Community Podcast #114
Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #114 hosted by Lucy Perry.
[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community_2010/librivox_community_podcast_114.mp3]Duration: 1hr 47min
With contributions from hugh, kayray, Algy Pug, Availle, RuthieG, Rowland, ExEmGe, HokusPokus, neerajanagarajan, neckertb, Nicholas19, gloriana, Cori, tis, Gesine, annise, Jonathan Awesome, KathrynD, rf, Great Plains, Starlite, aradlaw, TriciaG, russiandoll, wdcallahan and Claire — along with a host of other LibriVox Voices. Sound effects mostly from pdsounds.org
Join us as we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the creation of LibriVox. Listen as our readers tell us about the parts of LibriVox that they love. And enjoy a lazy afternoon pondering the future of LibriVox.
Running order:
An interview with kayray (4:40)
Algy Pug gives a new reader’s view of LibriVox (14:13)
Some LibriVox statistics collected by Availle (17:22)
RuthieG and the Fifth Anniversary Collections (25:06)
Rowland on LibriVox Addiction (27:40)
ExEmGe on how LibriVox has changed his life (31:57)
LibriVox is Five Years Old, a poem by Lucy_k_p (35:32)
The Languages of LibriVox (37:14)
HokusPokus, neerajanagarajan and neckertb discuss the latest German, Tamil and French works (41:10)
The Language Learning Initiative by Nicolas19 (54:18)
gloriana talks about what’s new in the Dramatic Works Forum (56:47)
Cori reflects on Podcasts (1:04:02)
An interview with hugh (1:05:09)
tis gives us a look behind the scenes at the technical side of LibriVox (1:18:53)
Gesine tell us how to Thank a Reader (1:23:23)
annise and Jonathan Awesome discuss the making of M4B files (1:28:15)
How I create CD Covers by KathrynD (1:32:30)
rf on plain vanilla CD case inserts (1:35:23)
Some advice to new volunteers from Great Plains (1:39:18)
The LibriVox Fundraiser (1:40:31)
Happy Anniversary LibriVox, from all our readers (1:43:05)
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Recent past and present LibriVox Community Podcast files can be found at our spot on:
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Archived shows for previous years can be found at:
2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Archived shownotes for the Community Podcast can be found at:
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