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Librivox New Releases Podcast 6 • Oct 2007

Posted on December 22, 2007 by | Posted in about LibriVox, Blog, New Releases Podcast, News, Podcast | Comments: Comments Off on Librivox New Releases Podcast 6 • Oct 2007

LibriVox New Release Podcast for audiobooks released
in Oct. 2007 is now available from Archive.org.
Hosted by LibriVox volunteer Alan Drake.
To subscribe please use this FeedBurner link:
or Right click HERE to download New Releases Podcast 006.

The New Releases Podcast is a preview of the LibriVox.org newest free audiobooks. LibriVox is an online volunteer community dedicated to producing free public-domain audiobooks. The LibriVox New Releases Podcast is a relaxed, leisurely way to sample the newest LibriVox audiobooks without having to download a series of large, individual audio files.

• New Releases Podcast 6 for October 2007

Host: Alan Drake
Length: 39:08
Size: 35:8 MB
Royalty Free Music: GarageBand’s Jaracanda Loop
Software: Created in GarageBand 4 on a 2.4 GHz Intel iMac

00:00 • Welcome and comments about LibriVox

01:21 • New Fiction and Short Works
• Short Story Collection 19 – Various — Selected by LibriVox volunteers
• The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Molly Make-Believe – Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
——— Preview: 01:45
• Howards End – E.M. Forster
• Little Eve Egarton – Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
• Kim – Rudyard Kipling
• The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Sun – Augusta Groner
——— Preview: 04:17
• Murder at Bridge – Anne Austin
• Won by Crime – Frank Pinkerton
• Wives and Daughters – Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Sea Hawk – Rafael Sabatini
• Star Born – Andre Norton
• Fanny Herself – by Edna Ferber
——— Preview at 08:01
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue – Edgar Allan Poe
——— Preview: 10:36
• Rudder Grange – Frank Stockton
——— Preview: 12:24
• An Antarctic Mystery or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields – Jules Verne
• The Shortstop – Zane Grey

14:46 • Samples of New Non-Fiction
• A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy – Ida Laura Pfeiffer
• The Loss of the S. S. Titanic – Lawrence Beesley
• Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 2 by Various Authors
• Democracy in America Vol. I by Alexis de Tocqueville
——— Preview: 16:05
• South! Shackleton’s Last Expedition – Ernest Shackleton
• Squirrels and other Fur-Bearers – John Burroughs
• This Country of Ours, Part 1 – H.E. Marshall
• The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters – Logan Marshall
——— Preview: 19:12
• The Fighting Governor : A Chronicle of Frontenac – Charles William Colby
• The Insurrection in Dublin – James Stephens
——— Preview: 21:38
• On the Elementary Electrical Charge – Robert Millikan
• The Art of War – Sun Tzu
• Eleven Theses on Feuerbach – Karl Marx
• Miscellaneous Essays – Thomas de Quincey

24:33 • Audiobooks for Children
• The Goody-Naughty Book – Sarah Cory Rippey
——— Preview: 24:41
• The House that Jack Built – Unknown
• The Burgess Bird Book for Children – Thornton W. Burgess
• Greylorn – Keith Laumer

29:38 • Samples of New Philosophy and Religion
• The Book of Lieh-Tzu by Lieh-Tzü
• The Revelation to Saint John – from the American Standard Version

30:44 • Samples of New Poetry
• Holy Sonnets – John Donne
——— Preview: 30:51
• Tender Buttons – Gertrude Stein
• Short Poetry Collections 050 & 051 – “The Wicked Zebra” & “The Owl”
——— Preview: 33:11
• October – Paul Laurence Dunbar
• The Ghosts’ Moonshine – Thomas Lovell Beddoes
• The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver – Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Sister Rosa: A Ballad – Percy Bysshe Shelley
• In a Garden – Amy Lowell
• The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman – Fay Inchfawn

36:18 • Audiobooks in a Language Other Than English
• Italian: Favole di Jean de La Fontaine, libro 12 – translated by Emilio de Marchi

36:52 • Dramatic Works
• Shakespeare Monologues, Volume 4 – William Shakespeare
——— Preview from Julius Caesar: 36:52

37:50 Closing remarks

Listen now: [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/LibrivoxNewReleasesPodcast/lv_new_releases006_oct2007.mp3]

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Librivox Community Podcast #66

Posted on December 20, 2007 by | Posted in Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: Comments Off on Librivox Community Podcast #66

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #66 [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community/librivox_community_podcast_66.mp3]
Duration 51:26

Our Host this week is Sean McGaughey with Jim Mowatt and D.E. Wittkower
1) Sean and Jim talk about Jim’s new podcast Historyzine.
2) Podcasting Howtos: Using WordPress with Podpress to publish podcasts.
3) A surprise visit from D.E. Wittkower
4) Creative Commons announces CC+ and CC0 licenses.
5) A discussion of philosophy, free culture, librivox, and a partridge in a pear tree.

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
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 #65

Posted on December 7, 2007 by | Posted in Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: 1 Comment on Librivox Community Podcast #65

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #65 [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community/librivox_community_podcast_65.mp3]
Duration 8:40

Our Host this week is Robert Scott
Intro : Angels We Have Heard on High

Molly Pauken & Rob Brumfiel / www.SirensMusic.com

Is there a Santa Claus ….. Frank P. Church’s response to a Letter From Virginia O’Hanlon

( An Editorial fron The New York Sun )

Happy Holidays LibriVox !!

Christmas Music ….. Non Commercial Use w/ Artist Attribution ….( for anyone looking for such )

http://feelslikechristmas.com/

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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:
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Librivox Community Podcast #64

Posted on November 28, 2007 by | Posted in Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: Comments Off on Librivox Community Podcast #64

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #64 [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community/librivox_community_podcast_64.mp3]
Duration 27:00

Our Host this week is Sean McGaughey (ductapeguy on the Forums)
The theme this week is dedication.
Librivox disclaimer
Ductapeguy and his Dad (Ray McGaughey) discuss the presence of Robert Service poetry in their family stories.
This Song Won’t Sell A Thing by Hussalonia available at archive.org.
Hugh talks about the dedication of our volunteers, especially those that do the cataloging (with a huge shoutout to Kara).
In the Spotlight with Janice Green aka BeeJan64 aka Grandma Janice.
Alan (Cloud Mountain) offers a dedication to David Barnes (aka earthcalling)
I talk with Esther about some of the ways she shares librivox recordings.
In the News: Hugh discusses DE Wittkower’s reading of Shopenhaur being used in a youtube video. Check it out on the Librivox Blog.

As always, send comments and kudos to: Email librivoxpodcast@gmail.com.

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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:
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