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damn! Hugh’s making it happen. I thought this project was cool when he told me about it - but I guess I missed the part where he said that started it.

“About LibriVox

LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting?

LibriViox’s wants all books in the public domain to be available, for free, in audio format, on the internet. We ask volunteers to record chapters of books in the public domain in digital format, catalog them, and podcast them. We get most of our texts from Project Gutenberg, and the Internet Archive hosts our audio files. Check our catalog, and use the files as you wish.

We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project. For the moment we don’t need any money, we’ll let you know if that changes! ”

Congratulations, hugh. I’ll see you on the conference circuit. Francois and Miriam just joined it this weekend (Mir was invited to an interesting conference in Ottawa, Francois was with Benoit and I on a panel in London, Sylvian does a lot of presentations, Daniel Lemay often presents on behalf of ISF. Add to that Robin, Omar, plus lots of others like Karl, Ed, Boris, Denis, Steven, etc. We’re a pretty loud bunch ;-) Montreal is cooking with smart + active geeks these days - I’m really happy that I live here.

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