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emaildesk: thanks for the help

Posted on March 14, 2008 by | Posted in correspondence, News | Comments: 4 Comments on emaildesk: thanks for the help

From Lee O.:

First, I want to thank you for offering something like this. Second, I want to tell my story and how your site has affected me personally. I’m currently taking a class that has some pretty intense readings. With a full load of university classes, I don’t often have the time I need to invest toward this one class that has all these required readings. I found your site while looking for Bram Stoker’s Dracula in audio book form. Looking around on amazon and such, I found that I could easily get the abridged version, and not only that, but that it would cost me a pretty penny to not only purchase, but to have it sent so quickly.

I am writing to say thank you. Thank you for what you’ve offered. I spend the majority of my days in a car, commuting to work and school, and you have allowed me to be able to get a significant amount of “reading” done without having to lose so much of my day. Because of your site, I might actually get what I need done before test time. For that, I will be grateful. And because of your site, I’ve also been looking into seeing what I could do to volunteer to read some works, just to be able to give to someone else, what your volunteers have given me.

So thank you. Greatly.

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Librivox Community Podcast 74

Posted on March 13, 2008 by | Posted in Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: Comments Off on Librivox Community Podcast 74

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #74
[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community/librivox_community_podcast_74.mp3]

Duration 29:39

Your hosts this week are Sean McGaughey and Hugh McGuire.

1: Borg Pi– Starlite

2: AWESOME DAY!!!!!! reports from Sean, Hugh and Ted Delorme (Mask O’ Glass)

3: PI informercial from Jerome

4: Hugh interviews Janne Vainio from Nokia Beta Labs

5: A PiLabuy from Chocoholic

6: A note from Scott Hemphill

7: Hugh recorded a brief message from Lawrence Lessig

8: A discussion of the spectrum of copyright licenses. Public Domain –> Creative Commons –> all rights reserved

9: Fast Pi Disclaimer by Cori

To Subscribe to the Librivox Community Podcast, go to:

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or hit this itunes link to get you to the subscribe page

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=203970211

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

Archived shownotes for the Librivox Community Podcast can be found at

http://librivox.org/category/librivox-community-podcast/

and the rss feed for those shownotes is:

http://librivox.org/category/librivox-community-podcast/feed

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Librivox Community Podcast 73

Posted on March 5, 2008 by | Posted in Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: Comments Off on Librivox Community Podcast 73

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #73 [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community/librivox_community_podcast_73.mp3]
Duration 37:36

Your host this week is Sean McGaughey.

1: Mmm Pi
2: A round table discussion with Sean, Hugh McGuire and Jim Mowatt
3: Dorothy Lieder reading from the Burgess Animal book for Children.
4: 1915 Recording of There are Smiles from Librivox.org.
5: Ticktockman presents the Librivox Stats.
6: An interview with Glen McKnight and Jason Dasti.
7: JC Gives an overview of the current progress of Chinese language projects on Librivox.
8: Pie Day: March 14 (3/14)

To Subscribe to the Librivox Community Podcast, go to:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LibrivoxCommunityPodcast
or hit this itunes link to get you to the subscribe page
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Past and present Librivox Community Podcast files can be found at our spot in Archive.org

Archived shownotes for the Librivox Community Podcast can be found at
http://librivox.org/category/librivox-community-podcast/
and the rss feed for those shownotes is:
http://librivox.org/category/librivox-community-podcast/feed

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Toronto Star on LibriVox

Posted on February 25, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, in the press, News | Comments: 2 Comments on Toronto Star on LibriVox

Michael Geist has an article in the Toronto Star about book 2.0 projects. The two projects cited are Evan Prodromou’s Wikitravel Press, and LibriVox.
About LibriVox, he says:

Canadians are also playing a leading role in reshaping the creation of audiobooks. Hugh McGuire, a Montreal-based writer and Web developer, established LibriVox in August 2005. The site is also based on concept of Internet collaboration. In this instance, LibriVox volunteers create voice recordings of chapters of books that are in the public domain. The resulting audio files are posted back on to the Internet for free.

The LibriVox project, which does not have an annual budget, has succeeded in placing more than 1,200 audio books on the Internet, including Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, works from Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and hundreds more.

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