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BookList’s Audiobooker on LibriVox

Posted on August 12, 2009 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News, on the web | Comments: 12 Comments on BookList’s Audiobooker on LibriVox

There is an interview up over at BookList’s Audiobooker Blog, with Mary Burkey:

The home of 2,557 audiobooks in 26 languages – all FREE. Hugh McGuire launched the volunteer-effort audiobook publishing model LibriVox on August 10th, 2005. Hugh is this week’s Inside the Audiobook Studio guest, ready to share the background on this amazing project. Want more information on LibriVox? Subscribe to the Community Podcast here. Have you always wanted to be an audiobook narrator – or perhaps want to challenge students to develop their oral performance skills? Are you an aspiring audio editor and need some practice? Try your talents by becoming a LibriVox volunteer! Want to learn how to slow down the LibriVox audiobooks? Searching for a list of recommended best FREE LibriVox titles? You’ll find answers to all things LibriVox on the LibriVox Wiki. [more…]

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Do you enjoy listening to books?

Posted on August 2, 2009 by | Posted in Blog, News, on the web | Comments: Comments Off on Do you enjoy listening to books?

A young guy named Todd sings the praises of LibriVox on Youtube (FYI the cut-off for public domain in the US is 1923, though it’s a bit more complicated than that):

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LibriVox: Time, Love & Books

Posted on June 23, 2009 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News, on the web | Comments: 4 Comments on LibriVox: Time, Love & Books

This is my presentation at the BookNetCanada Tech Forum in March, titled: LibriVox: Time, Love & Books. Sorry, there is 1 slide only, for you Powerpoint buffs.

I talk about audiobooks, time acquisition, LibriVox, Google, the link, and the digital archaeology of love. And Hinton, Alberta.

Link to the vid.

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Gaiman on the Audiobook/Kindle Controversy

Posted on February 27, 2009 by | Posted in News, on the web | Comments: 23 Comments on Gaiman on the Audiobook/Kindle Controversy

Neil Gaiman on the (silly) hoopla over the Kindle & its ability to “read” books to you, robot-to-human:

As I said first time out, and this is speaking as someone who loves audiobooks, records his own audiobooks, makes a not-insignificant portion of his income from audiobooks and has even won awards for bloody audiobooks… To repeat myself — I think any money that could be spent on legal bills trying to stop people listening to books (or to anything still in copyright) using the text-to-speech functions on their computers, iPhones, Kindles, Androids etc, would be infinitely better used to promote audiobooks, to tell people there are fine audiobooks out in the world, that there are great books and great readers, and that the experience of listening to a book is a wonderful one. Promote the Audie awards. Get the word out. [more…]

I think it’s fair to say, on behalf of the LibriVox community: hear hear!

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