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thanks guys, we'll be reviewing this thread as the work progresses...

Dear Developers... LibriVox is rebuilding its API. If you are planning, or already have, built apps or web services on the LibriVox catalog, please post here so we know who you are & also, pls monitor this thread. We'd like you to test, and give us feedback. The information about the NEW API can...

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 (system administrator), and Valerie Bock (project manager). To date, they have together logged 441 hours...

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 us the past couple of years). IMPORTANT!!: The LibriVox website and forum will be unavailable while...

heh deleted the "generously volunteered time" ... everyone generously volunteers time here, no need to say that aloud., especially about myself! (val drafted some of that message... i didn;t notice the pat of myself on the back!!)...

Hi all, I just posted an update on the Mellon Grant on the LibriVox blog. Here it is, forumized: LibriVox Mellon Grant – Update We are now 3 months and a bit into our Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project to rebuild the LibriVox infrastructure. Some of you may be wondering: Where’s my new shiny...

Hi kungfu ... we're still in the process of getting Val & Jeff up to speed on the existing set-up, and in fact we have the designs done, but we will be looking for feedback sometime in the coming months.

hugh.

See the blog announcement: http://librivox.org/2012/06/25/librivox-mellon-grant-project-gets-underway/ LibriVox Mellon Grant Project Gets Underway! We are excited to announce that work has begun behind the scenes to rebuild the LibriVox technical infrastructure and implement a new site design and ca...

if i had a dollar for every time i have spelled it lirbrivox, or libirvox ... we wouldn't need a grant.

Dear LibriVoxers, some exciting news: 1. We got a small ($50k) grant from the Mellon Foundation to undertake some sorely needed tech improvements. See: http://librivox.org/2012/04/05/100-million-dowloads-and-a-mellon-foundation-grant/ And following from 1, 2. We are hiring (on a contract basis) two ...

yes, awful news... gregg was so wonderful to work with.

from a listener: Hi, my name is Lauri L. and I am a teacher in Tallahassee, Fl. I teach reading to special needs students at the high school level. I am interested in young adult novels…..high interest…low reading level…poetry…literature for my students to listen to on line. Do you have any recordin...

from a listener: I have downloaded many Librivox books, but now find that the last two I have on my mp3 player(creative zen) will not delete. The books are, Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, and Boswell, Life of Johnson. I don't thinks that the player is at fault because I downloaded Boswell on a...

From Cynthia's husband:

reader acrobatty (Cynthia Lyons) passed away August 15.
She loved reading for librivox. She got letters of appreciation. An old friend listening to a reading while driving suddenly realized who was reading. We will miss her.

her husband
David

hrm, works for me ?