Dante’s Inferno: Cori reads; Gustave Doré illustrates; and lucid videoifies.
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Dante’s Inferno: Cori reads; Gustave Doré illustrates; and lucid videoifies.
All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain, and the question comes up often enough: why not license the recordings as creative commons/non-commercial instead? The…
This is an audio interview with Janne Vainio, an audio engineer at Nokia, who put together the Audiobooks project at Nokia’s BetaLabs. The project features…
Michael Geist has an article in the Toronto Star about Canadian book 2.0 projects. The two projects cited are Evan’s Wikitravel Press, and LibriVox. About…
Been a while since I wrote a longish piece on LibriVox. Peter Kerry Powers, a Professor of English and chair of the English department at…
News from the commercial side of audiobooks, amazon dishes out 300 smackers for audible.com. quick calculation: -the article indicates that audible’s catalog is roughly 90,000…
*LibriVox top 10 books result in about 190,000 downloads per month. *The zip files for those 10 books add up to 3.8 GB *Or an…
Sorta taken aback by this, though I guess with the thousands of people who come thru LibriVox, it was going to happen eventually. A member…
As far as I know, this is the first youtube vid using LibriVox audio. This is DE. Wittkower reading Schopenhauer’s Studies in Pessimism. Music is…
I love when I discover richer and more varied uses for podcasts. Jim Mowatt, a long-time LibriVox guy, and a retired force behind the LibriVox…