August 10, 2014

LibriVox Ninth Anniversary Podcast No. 137

33 minutes

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #137 celebrating LibriVox’s ninth birthday, hosted by Ruth Golding (RuthieG).

Duration: 33:08

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Featuring MaryAnnSpiegel, DACsoft, bookangel7, mhhbook, Hobbit, lubee930, Piotrek81, commonsparrow3 and a host of others.

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00:00 Introduction

00:49 RuthieG and MaryAnnSpiegel have a good old natter about the last year at LibriVox.

03:34 Don Cummings (DACsoft) talks about his activities at Distributed Proofreaders and LibriVox.

05:48 Bookangel7 tells us how she finds books to record.

07:40 Mary in Arkansas (mhhbook) shares her thoughts on book selection.

10:08 Lucretia (lubee930) appeals to any non-LibriVoxers listening to come on in, the water’s lovely!

12:37 Eden Rea-Hedrick (Hobbit) sings Oh, LibriVox! words by Jason Mills (Vandermast), music a traditional Irish air, arranged by Fred. E. Weatherly.

14:53 Piotrek81 talks about recording in Polish and English, and how he finds suitable texts.

17:50 Ruth and MaryAnn finally get around to talking about text sources for recording.

24:38 Maria Kasper (commonsparrow3) tells us of her enthusiasm for original sources.

27:21 Ruth has a word about an unfortunate experience during her time at LibriVox, in the hope that it may prove helpful to anyone else who has a ‘dental disaster’.

29:21 Pin back yer lugholes (or put in your earplugs, actually). The LibriVox choristers have been at it again, and poor old Luigi Denza will be spinning in his grave.

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Sources for reading ideas mentioned in the podcast:

http://www.gutenberg.org/

https://archive.org/details/texts

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

http://www.hathitrust.org/

http://www.unz.org/

Book suggestions forum: viewforum.php?f=1

Abandoned projects thread: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=22757

Books on the Ambleside home schooling lists: http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Recommended_Listening_List

Nobel literature laureates thread: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=51945

Polish texts: http://wolnelektury.pl/

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We are interested in whatever feedback – positive or constructively critical – anyone has about our podcasts. Add a comment below or pop over to this forum thread. Any member of the community who has contributed readings to the LibriVox catalog can host a podcast and is most welcome to do so. Visit this thread on the forum to express an interest and float your ideas.

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Recent past LibriVox Community Podcast files can be found at our spot on: Archive.org and archived shows for previous years can be found at: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Archived shownotes for the Community Podcast can be found at: http://librivox.org/category/librivox-community-podcast/ And the rss feed for those shownotes is: http://librivox.org/category/librivox-community-podcast/feed

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