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Jimbo on Librivox

User:Jimbo on Librivox:

"On the Librivox thing, they seem like good people, and good links, I wonder if you could give some advice on how we all (you, me, them) might all work together to have a group of disinterested Wikipedians go through as a project adding any and all relevant links?--Jimbo Wales 21:02, 12 March 2006 (UTC)" from [1][reply]
Since the works are all public domain, it should be no problem to add links on Wikisource to the equivalent item on LibriVox. Add each of those on Wikisource to a category "Items read aloud on LibriVox" or somesuch, and link to that page from here. Subcategorize the page: alphabetically by author, and by title. Add another two category pages: nonfiction sorted by Dewey Decimal, and fiction sorted by genre. Make it a Wikisource/LibriVox portal page.
I know it's not our duty to categorize LibriVox for them, but rather to make it easier for those who prefer audio versions of Wikisource material to have it easily available. This includes the non-sighted. --68.35.127.124 (talk) 05:14, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
this would be great ... i wonder if we could do an xml catalog dump into wikisource? would anyone be interested in receiving & processing such a thing? Mackinaw (talk) 13:57, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Baltimore Sun Quote

I am concerned about having this quote on the page, as it says that we have 15 unabridged novels. We currently have just over thirty unabridged novels, plus many poems and short stories, and the list grows weekly. That quote will lead people to believe that we only have 15 novels. Perhaps there should be some note of when that quote was written, and that we have many more than 15 books. -GreenKri 14:18, 13 March 2006 (UTC)greenKri[reply]

I agree. It would seem to make sense to add the date of the article (which is February 9, 2006). ---Gmackenzie 16:44, 13 March 2006 (UTC)gmackenzie[reply]

Review by the founder:Dostoyevsky. Notes from the Underground

(edited and copied from my user talk page)The founder read a couple of chapters in it. The variation in reading style is big. The first chapters are not "read well" by Holywood standards, but Gord, for instance is a great, trained reader. Many different Dostoyevskys speak to you in this work. All compelling for their own qualities, & their amazing, human, naked and vulnerable faults. But you can hear the love in every voice, for every word uttered, and there is something magic about that, something so outside, beyond, the standards we have been trained to accept in a "recording". WAS 4.250 04:12, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Redhat.com Article

Redhat recently showed an article about Librivox by Rebecca Fernandez that explains the project very well. The Article. If you want a very well researched summary of Librivox, this is it.GreenKri 04:32, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Further Reading

Although there is some relationship between the Gutenberg project and Librivox... I'm not sure why the link to "computer-generated" Audio Books on Gutenberg is present... Librivox has nothing to do with Gutenberg's computer-generated files. In fact, Librivox is philosophically opposed to "computer-generated" readings of literature. The prevailing opinion at Librivox is that literature is better presented through the human voice. While this may be a helpful link for those looking for Audio Books, it really has little to do with Librivox (the subject of the page). 

---Gmackenzie 16:44, 13 March 2006 (UTC)gmackenzie[reply]


Factual info

I added some factual info to the intro, as follows: "Librivox is a digital library of free public domain audio books, read by volunteers. The project started in August 2005, and as of July 2006 has a catalog of about one hundred full length, unabridged books, and numerous shorter works. LibriVox recordings are primarily in English, however other languages are also available, including German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Finnish, Latin and Old English." I am a member of LibriVox so if anyone objects to me adding that edit, well, here it is on the talk page.Mackinaw

I've updated the factual info re the LibriVox catalogue. I'm a LibriVox volunteer, too. Gesinegesine

Due to possible copyright conflict, the Agatha Christie books have been removed from the LibriVox catalog until this can be resolved. I have replaced the SOLO book listed in this article with another popular title from the LibriVox catalog. thistlechick 14:31, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Spoken Article

This is my first attempt and it seemed simple enough. Enjoy.Reason turns rancid 23:12, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rewrite

Hi. I've changed the article quite a bit. Hopefully you will think it has been improved. I'm aware that I have not included citations, but I will try to get round to it. Thanks. --82.69.202.14 (talk) 17:31, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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