Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #82 – 26th June 2008 [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community/librivox_community_podcast_82.mp3]
Duration 16:09
Your host this week is Cori Samuel.
Equipment reviews: digitaltoast goes retro, while Starlite is back to the future with a new H2! Music: From Dvorak’s New World Symphony in the public domain at musopen.com.
Book promotion samples from: Our Vanishing Wild Life by William T. Hornaday, Strange Pages from Family Papers by T. F. Thistleton Dyer and The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children by Jane Andrews.
An interview by Starlite with one of LibriVox’s many listeners, her mom!
A response to that interview by lezer … it’s 1min 25secs of Dutch, so bear with us, non-Dutch-speakers! In slightly-summarised translation, she says:
Who would listen to an audiobook in Dutch?! Please forgive my voice-with-a-cold, but I had to respond to that! At this time, there are more than 10 complete Dutch books available on Librivox, and each one of those has been downloaded hundreds to thousands of times. If I may blow my own trumpet: my first solo, [i]Majoor Frans[/i], has been downloaded more than 11000 times in about 10 months. And there are still so many beautiful Dutch books that deserve to be “acoustically liberated”, according to Librivox’s motto. Even people who can’t read any English, can find the Librivox audiobooks, now that completely Dutch-language sites such as biblioo.nl provide direct links to the Dutch audiobooks in the Librivox catalog.
What’s the best place to start as a new Dutch volunteer? Well, perhaps by reading a Dutch poem for our multilanguage poetry collection – or participate in the two Dutch group projects: the “Camera Obscura” and Andersen’s fairy tales translated in Dutch.
Dear Esther’s mother, to end with, a direct personal appeal to you: you have such a beautiful voice, also on behalf of the other Dutch anna at Librivox, I would like to ask you to record a fairy tale for us! Think of all the children around the world who would love to be read to by a dear grandmother from far far away!
Well, now I have hijacked the Librivox podcast for long enough – what will the non-Dutch listeners think of us? I hand the microphone back to Cori.
Finally, anoldfashionedgirl and ductapeguy duet on the LibriVox Song. The guitar backing track for this is in the forum, courtesy of DTG, so … feel free to have a go yourself — just don’t forget to post or send Cori the result!
P.S. Yes, that was a cat miaowing at 3:19, you’d think I never fed him.
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