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LibriVox as Memorial

Posted on October 20, 2008 by | Posted in mail, News | Comments: 1 Comment on LibriVox as Memorial

We received this wonderfully touching email from Shanna H., whose father read for LibriVox:

I just wanted to let you know that the reader of Genesis in Hebrew is my father, Israel Radvinsky. He passed away last November and I miss him very much. I love that his voice is on the internet reading in his native language and a book he loved. I listen to it and recommend it to others who want to hear it read very well and in an authentic accent.

Thank you for your website and this forum. It is invaluable and gave my father so much pleasure.

With gratitude,
Shanna H.

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RIP: A Remixer’s Manifesto

Posted on October 18, 2008 by | Posted in News | Comments: Comments Off on RIP: A Remixer’s Manifesto

Last night I went to the premier of my friend Brett’s movie: RIP: A Remixer’s Manifesto. It’s about copyright law, remixing, the public domain, culture, among other things, and it was really, really fantastic. If you get a chance, you should go see it.

The trailer focuses a bit too much on Girl Talk and his scantily-clad fans, which, to be honest had me a bit worried about the movie. But the film delivered far more than dancing kids and mash-up music.

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365 Days of LibriVox Audio

Posted on October 15, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News | Comments: 3 Comments on 365 Days of LibriVox Audio

This past weekend, LibriVox reached an extraordinary milestone: our catalog now contains 365 days worth of free, public domain audiobooks. So, if you started to listen to the catalog today, spending 24-hours-a-day with your headphones, it would take you a full year to listen to our entire current catalog. By which time, you’ll have hours and hours of new audio from LibriVox to entertain and enlighten you. In our three year existence we have produced an extraordinary average of 8-hours-a-day of audiobooks, all read by volunteers, all made available for free. Our catalog is currently at 1,826 works, in 26 different languages.

In the past week alone we’ve released numerous wonderful recordings, including:

Perhaps you’d like to come help us record more?

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Literary Readings and What We Should Do About Them

Posted on October 8, 2008 by | Posted in News, on the web | Comments: 10 Comments on Literary Readings and What We Should Do About Them

I recently came upon an article decrying the awfulness of most literary readings, pointed at by Frank Wilson of Books, Inq. Frank thinks it’s not all literary readings that make ears bleed, but that North American (versus British, Irish and other) writers have little command of the oral medium, and thinks that’s the problem.

I have no idea if he’s right, but I do know that reading a few books for LibriVox will help any writer read better aloud. Maybe publishers should require that all novelists record at least two chapters for librivox, as part of their contract?

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