LibriVox - public domain books for your ears
OK, I’ve just launched a little experimental project, let’s see how it goes. It’s called LibriVox:
LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting?
LibriVox is an open source audio-literary attempt to harness the power of the many to record and disseminate, in podcast form, books from the public domain. It works like this: a book is chosen, then *you*, the volunteers, read and record one or more chapters. We liberate the audio files through this webblog/podcast every week (?).
There some more info here.
So if you know any podcasters, literature buffs, actors, librarians, teachers, readers, writers, radio announcers, or anyone at all who might be interested in donating some time to read a chapter of a public domain book and record it to the net, please send them to LibriVox. If you want to get directly in touch, try: librivox(at]yahoo(dot]ca.
So this is for all you bloggers who read and comment on this site occasionally: (eponym, fling, andre, mike l, martine, seb, wirearchy, danielle and the rest)…
let’s see where it all goes!
I’d love to read for you, though I’m not sure of my voice. Let me pick up a microphone and I’ll drop you a line.
Comment by David Baker — August 10, 2005 @ 4:17 pm
hey david, if you decide you’re ready for the airwaves, drop a line on http://librivox.blogsome.com and reserve a chapter!
Comment by hugh — August 10, 2005 @ 6:04 pm
Whoa, guess I have to “mettre les bouchées doubles” and get going with the Salon du livre libre… november is almost at our door ! Hugh, if you have some free time to pour into this project, let me know : we should definately meet pretty soon :)
Comment by Robin — August 10, 2005 @ 8:37 pm
how bout you read a chapter & we’ll talk!!
Comment by hugh — August 10, 2005 @ 9:01 pm
LibriVox (aka Podcast Gutenberg)
Hugh has a new project that I’d like to draw attention to: LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting? LibriVox is an open sourc…
Trackback by fling93 loves fishies — August 10, 2005 @ 9:31 pm
What! What an awesome idea! I’ll blog it and send out a link to some library listservs! Great goin’!
Comment by danielle — August 11, 2005 @ 8:10 pm
Hmmm… I wonder if my accent would drive listeners crazy (in a bad way)?
Comment by Martine — August 13, 2005 @ 3:41 am
Congrats, Hugh, on a brilliant idea! I’m sure it’ll take off.
Since reading out load is not among my greatest strengths, I’ll have to consider alternative ways of contributing. Gimme a few days to think it over…
Comment by Andre — August 13, 2005 @ 5:05 pm
Are there any chapters left? If so, I’d be happy to contribute my nasally drawl. I am going on vacation next week though, so it will have to wait until I get back.
Comment by Nick — August 14, 2005 @ 5:42 am
nick, martine, this is open source audio, we want all voice-types. I’ll let you guys know on the next book (or if I get a drop out on the secret agent), since all chaps are taken. But I won’t forget!!
cheers. hugh.
Comment by hugh — August 18, 2005 @ 3:48 am
cpuoeeb ineee
Comment by Mable — March 3, 2006 @ 8:12 am
Dear Sirs,
Are you still looking for readers? If so, would you send me your information?
Thank you for your time,
Kim
Comment by Kim Monday — May 11, 2006 @ 2:28 pm