Librivox, the community that provides public domain texts, read by volunteers, has hit 100 million downloads. The organisation creates hundreds of audiobooks for free as mp3 or ogg files, providing ...

Hugh McGuire’s goal is to make all public domain (expired copyright) books available free online in audio format. He’s created LibriVox to reach that goal, and it is a terrific open source, public ...

I’ve always loved audiobooks, but the price can make it hard to keep up with the habit. A few months of paying for a subscription, and suddenly I’ve spent as much as I would on a stack of new ...

LibriVox is a volunteer-driven project. The app offers free public-domain audiobooks created by a global community of volunteers. LibriVox was founded in August 2005. It is one of the best ...

This summer, Hugh McGuire was searching for free audio books online from his home in Montreal. He didn't find very much. At the current rate of recording, McGuire says he expects LibriVox to hit 30 ...

In the dim, humid basement of his Maryland home, Michael Scherer, a tall 38-year-old with the long, square beard of a mandolin player or a monk, leans toward a rebuilt Russian tube microphone, ...