Ukrainian at LibriVox
It’s always a pleasure to welcome a new language to the LibriVox Catalog. Today we welcomed our first Ukrainian project. It’s: Fables by Leonid Glibov, or in Ukrainian: Байки Леонiда Глiбова. The...
View ArticleAfter the Apocalypse
Happy New Year! And happy it is indeed, as we have just survived the latest apocalypse of 21. December 2012… However, it’s never too early to prepare for the next one – with 10 gems from our catalog....
View ArticleAaron Swartz, 1986-2013
This weekend the Public Domain lost one of its most gifted and passionate advocates when Aaron Swartz committed suicide, at age 26. Aaron was a programmer, a campaigner for social justice, and a...
View ArticleCalling App Developers: Testing New LibriVox API!
Hi there, everyone out there who has or would like to build an app or web service on the LibriVox catalog. We are in the process of revamping our API. You can find the latest information on our Forum...
View ArticleThe Color Black
Slavery – a black chapter in human history. Find out what it meant for those involved, even after its abolishment, from 10 gems of our catalog. Clotel, the President’s Daughter, lived a quite...
View ArticleLike Day and Night
On the equinox both day and night are 12 hours long. The following 10 gems from our catalog are concerned with differences – and equality. Photogen is a boy who never saw the moon. Nycteris is a girl...
View ArticleUPGRADES: coming very soon to our forum, wiki & website!
TOMORROW we will be doing some software upgrades, as part of our Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project. We plan to update our forum, wiki and the WordPress software which runs our website and...
View ArticleA Misunderstanding in the New York Times
On March 12th (online) and March 13th (printed edition), we were delighted to see our friend John Greenman figure in an article in the New York Times “Older adults start new chapters in their work...
View ArticleMother Nature
Mother Earth is celebrated wordwide on Earth Day, April 22nd. Have a great party with 10 gems from our catalogue! No feat(ure) of nature is so widely discussed, praised and condemmed as – the weather....
View ArticleLove and Marriage
May is a good time to fall in love – but not everything starting out on cloud #9 has a happy landing on the ground of reality, as 10 gems from our catalog show… Abelard and Heloise are a medieval...
View ArticleUnderneath
The summer is almost here, a perfect time to hunt for treasures. Go on a search for the things that are hidden from view with 10 gems from our catalog. Very hidden from view is a young lady who,...
View ArticleThrough Time and Space
Summertime – the perfect excuse for travelling and going somewhere new. Go to infinity or eternity – and beyond – with 10 gems from our catalog. Aristotle wrote one of the first “scientific” works On...
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LibriVox Needs Your Help
Dear LibriVox Friends, LibriVox needs your help. We have just launched a new funding drive, and if you’d like to donate without hearing all the rest you can do so here: Donate to LibriVox. For those...
View ArticleLibriVox Languages
LibriVox is eight, it is! And we are happy to celebrate the great diversity of our readers with the following 10 non-English gems from our catalog. Si Amboy ang Palahubog, by Vicente Rama, tells the...
View ArticleLibriVox 8th Anniversary Podcast: New Beginnings
Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #133 hosted by Ruth Golding (RuthieG). Download audio file (librivox_community_podcast_133.mp3) Duration: 40:37 LibriVox 8th Anniversary: New Beginnings Featuring...
View ArticleLibriVox World Tour 2012: AFRICA
Welcome to the sixth and last leg of our World Tour, where we return to the cradle of mankind and make a roundtour with 10 gems from our catalog. Let’s start our journey in Algeria, where we meet...
View ArticleLibriVox Will Be Down for Maintenance Wed Nov 28-Fri Nov 30
Dear Everybody, We are moving homes! All LibriVox systems are going to move from our current servers to a new home at the Internet Archive (thanks Internet Archive! and thanks to Syntenic for hosting...
View ArticleChildren Only
It’s that time of the year again: the holidays are coming up! To ease your kid’s anxiety (and your own), try the following 10 gems from our catalog. There is nothing worse than having to stay at school...
View Article“Rebuild LibriVox” (Mellon Grant Project) Update #2
Dear All, We are now 6 months into the Mellon-funded project, to revamp the LibriVox tech infrastructure. We have a few people paid to work on the project: Jeff Madsen (developer), Artom Lifshitz...
View ArticleUkrainian at LibriVox
It’s always a pleasure to welcome a new language to the LibriVox Catalog. Today we welcomed our first Ukrainian project. It’s: Fables by Leonid Glibov, or in Ukrainian: Байки Леонiда Глiбова. The...
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