LibriVox Forum

Audible.co.uk appear to be giving away one free audiobook my first thought: librivox.org appears to be giving away all audiobooks for free... :wink: Yes, but not The God Delusion and Earworms MBT Italian they're not :) The reason I suggested it (perhaps I should have mentioned this!) was sometimes ...

Golly, I didn't expect this discussion to devolve into a Mac-bashing session, even though my site appears to be working perfectly Hmm, well I'm using current versions of: IE - can't read the text as the monster is over the top of it. IE, Firefox and Chrome won't play any audio - I just get a black ...

This wouldn't work with Librivox recordings, which are all, by definition, in the Public Domain. Here's my advice: make your recording, upload a sample to archive.org, and sell your recordings on eBay, with a link to the sample so that people can try before they buy. You can happily state that you ...

As some may remember, I stopped bothering with Librivox when I found that the selling of our work for profit by ebayers was actively encouraged by Librivox. Suppose I chose another librivox username of "you_may_not_sell_this_recording". Would that get round the "we can't tell people n...

Well, I went for it....and what a nightmare! They make it virtually impossible to listen on all but a very few select devices - even most iPods before gen 6 won't play the downloads, due to a bizarre proprietary encoding and DRM format. Here's the email I just sent them, which might give a clue as t...

We founded Google Books on the premise that anyone, anywhere, anytime should have the tools to explore the great works of history and culture. and didn't write: unless we can't find/can't be bothered to find the date of death of the author or translator, in which case we won't let anyone in author'...

As search on this forum doesn't seem to be working properly, I could only find this thread so apologies if it's been posted before, but I thought this might be interesting: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-books-in-more-places-public-domain.html Try doing a search for [Hamlet] on Google B...

Cori wrote:Ahum ... are you saying we do it improperly..?

Oops! Perhaps I should have said "professionally"! As in "paid to".

CarlManchester wrote: Lynn Faulds Wood.

Ach! She's frum Wortch doggggggggg!

Sorry I've not been very active round these parts lately... Anyway, I just got this promo from the local radio station: http://www.audible.co.uk/heart Click the link, join, download any audio book (some of them are £14!), remember to cancel within 30 days, and keep the download. I'm just figuring ou...

D'oh! I forgot about this - so it's kinda passed by now, but anyway:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/magic-number.html

Wow - What a brilliant job everyone did, especially all the people involved in getting the whole lot and gluing it together!

Hi, I thought someone here might be able to help - I got the following on a talking news mailing list, and said I'd ask here, the reason being that they are a charity and have been quoted over £1000 for a high speed tape-to-pc machine. If anyone can offer this service perhaps at a reduced rate, or l...

Soundin' good! Good efforts on this, dsayers!

I don't like the new facebook. Change is always a bit unsettling. Ah, in that case I REALLY hope you never find the popular youtube video I made taking the you-know-what out of "I don't like the new facebook because it's change" crowd!! (Apologies if you ever see it!) Out of interest, is ...

Hey guys! The husband says I should try this newfangled Chrome - but I don't know - I'm kind of curmudgeon-y. Is there a way to turn off tabbed browsing, for example? I doubt it. Tabbed browsing is kind of the whole point of Chrome. Good to know. Won't be using it then. Pointless. Do you mind me as...