LibrivoxWe’ve had some great additions to the catalog recently:
We’ve got another one in the catalog queue (hint: it’s Finnish!)
So for the past several weeks, we’ve been adding about 25-ish new volunteers to the forum a week. Then last week, an article came out in wired.com, and then got picked up elsewhere, including the German site heise online.
Well, the result was 85 new volunteers this week, and a hectic, busy time trying to manage the forum. So welcome to all the new LibriVoxers, and thanks to the veteran volunteers (Kara) and the new volunteers (Betsie, Annie, and Gesine) who helped us weather the storm, and made many helpful changes online.
Anyway, the upshot is we now have 283 volunteers signed up on the forum, about 70 long works in production, about 15 complete full-length books, and 15 shorter works done (including poetry).
We now have a flickr badge … scroll down and look at the photos to the right. Any public photos tagged “librivox” on flickr will turn up here … so take a pic of your studio, some old books we’re doing, libraries … anything you like, and you’ll see it there eventually.
Oh if you don’t know what flickr is, here’s what they have to say.
OK, here’s an experiment. We’ve posted a poem in the forum (by William Blake), and we’re asking everyone and anyone to record a version of it. We’ll leave the poem open for a week.
This is a good way to cut your teeth if you haven’t recorded anything yet, and want to try. It’s also an illustration of something we at LibriVox find fascinating — the different ways people can read the same text.
The poem is short, and very good, so why not visit the forum and inspire yourself with, “The Voice of the Ancient Bard.”