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LibriVox Reaches 2,000

Posted on December 31, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News | Comments: 9 Comments on LibriVox Reaches 2,000

Just in time for your 2008/09 new year’s celebration, LibriVox has reach another great milestone, by cataloging our 2,000th book, Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. VI.

The rest of the series can be found here:

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

LibriVox is an all-volunteer project to record public domain audiobooks, and give them away for free. We are among the most prolific audiobook publishers in the world.

We reached 1,000 books on October 31, 2007, after 26 months; the second thousand came 14 months later.

Congratulations to all the readers, coordinators, proof-listeners, moderators, and techies who have helped build LibriVox into one of the great communities online. Thanks to Internet Archive for hosting our audio files, and to Project Gutenberg for making thousands of public domain texts available online. And thanks to all our listeners for listening.

If you’d like to volunteer to help make audio recordings of every public domain text in the universe, you could take a look at our volunteer page, or jump right into our forum.

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Christmas Choices

Posted on December 24, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News, Weekly Picks | Comments: 3 Comments on Christmas Choices

We have selected a few seasonal recordings for your holiday enjoyment! :D

Christmas Short Works Collection 2008 (multilingual)
Christmas Short Works Collection 2007
Christmas Short Works Collection 2006
Nussknacker und Mausekönig
The Spirit of Christmas
A Christmas Carol
Santa Claus’s Partner
The Seven Poor Travellers
The Story of the Other Wise Man
The Birds’ Christmas Carol

I hope you enjoy them, and wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Ruth

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Emaildesk: Opening a new world

Posted on December 21, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, mail, News | Comments: 1 Comment on Emaildesk: Opening a new world

From a listener:

Dear everyone at LibriVox, we would like to thank each and every one of you for contributing to this wonderful library. Since my wife’s eye sight has been failing due to retinitis pigmentosa, she can not any more enjoy reading. It was opening a new world for her, when I discovered LibriVox this year.
We wish every one a joyful Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Keep up the good work.
With best wishes
Knud Erik S.
Malaysia

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LibriVox Community Podcast #93

Posted on December 20, 2008 by | Posted in Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: Comments Off on LibriVox Community Podcast #93

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #93 hosted by Cori Samuel. [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community/librivox_community_podcast_93.mp3]
Duration 17:48

This week’s show is on the theme of Getting Started! Karen Commins gives some excellent advice as a relative newcomer to LibriVox.

Earthcalling provides a musical interlude. Go Librivoxateers!

Hokuspokus, icyjumbo, Andy Minter, redaer and Great Plains discuss how they pick projects to work on, their routines before recording, and also give some hints for first-time LibriVoxers.

The promo at the end, I *think* is from Brad Bush (please correct me if that’s wrong.)

Contributions to next week’s show, on the audio you’ve most enjoyed listening to this year, are very welcome … please send MP3s to the ‘cs’ folder on the uploader, or email / PM me.

Subscribe to the Librivox Community Podcast or hit this iTunes link to get you to the subscribe page.

Past and present Librivox Community Podcast files can be found at our spot in archive.org.

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