Public Television (PBS) usually holds a monthly or quarterly donation drive to keep the various stations running. That said, the volunteer-run Public Domain audiobook website LibriVox is currently asking for donations, mostly to cover in-production bandwidth costs. (The final products are safely stored at the Internet Archive.) The goal is $20,000, and LibriVox is “already [...]
01.21.2010
LibriVox recently released a free audiobook of The Complete Book of Cheese by Bob Brown. It is a collaborative effort, and I read three sections from the glossary of cheeses, mangling several languages (including English…perhaps) in the process:
N-Q (37:39)
R-S (46:37)
T-Z (36:22)
12.20.2009
Here are 30 free Christmas songs from performers from all over the world:
If you subscribe to the Poderamos Podcast, you’ll be able to download the mono version of Ryan DeRamos’ rendition of “It Came upon the Midnight Clear” (or just right-click and ’save target/link as’). Ryan recorded four songs for the LibriVox collection (in mono), [...]
11.22.2009
LibriVox has recently released a free audiobook of Hints for Lovers by Theodore Arnold Haultain. It is a collaborative effort, and I read Chapter 3: “On Women.”
08.17.2009
Ryan DeRamos recently contributed to a podcast celebrating LibriVox’s fourth anniversary. Here is his spiel in stereo:
08.03.2009
We are still planning the regular format(s) of Poderamos. In the meanwhile, please download LibriVox’s poem of the week compilation: “Summer Evening” by John Clare (or download a .zip file), featuring different recordings of the poem, read by several volunteer readers, including our very own Ryan DeRamos.
Listen here:
07.27.2009
We are still figuring out how we can regularly fit your iPod (or equivalent mp3 player) with a podcast. In the meanwhile, let us redirect you to LibriVox’s poem of the week compilation: “When First I Came Here” by Edward Thomas (or download a .zip file), featuring different recordings of the poem, read by several [...]
07.06.2009
While we figure out how we can regularly fit your iPod (or equivalent mp3 player) with a podcast, let us redirect you to LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 080 (or download a .zip file), which features Ryan DeRamos’ reading of “She Was a Beauty” by Henry Cuyler Bunner.
Listen here:
