Talk:LibriVox

message: I am concerned about having this quote on the page, as it says that we have 15 unabridged novels. We currently have just over thirty unabridged novels, plus many poems and short stories, and the list grows weekly. That quote will lead people to believe that we only have 15 novels. Perhaps there should be some note of when that quote was written, and that we have many more than 15 books. -GreenKri 14:18, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Baltimore Sun Quote

message: (edited and copied from my user talk page)The founder read a couple of chapters in it. The variation in reading style is big. The first chapters are not "read well" by Holywood standards, but Gord, for instance is a great, trained reader. Many different Dostoyevskys speak to you in this work. All compelling for their own qualities, & their amazing, human, naked and vulnerable faults. But you can hear the love in every voice, for every word uttered, and there is something magic about that, something so outside, beyond, the standards we have been trained to accept in a "recording". WAS 4.250 04:12, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Review by the founder:Dostoyevsky. Notes from the Underground

message: Redhat recently showed an article about Librivox by Rebecca Fernandez that explains the project very well. The Article. If you want a very well researched summary of Librivox, this is it.GreenKri 04:32, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Redhat.com Article

message: Although there is some relationship between the Gutenberg project and Librivox... I'm not sure why the link to "computer-generated" Audio Books on Gutenberg is present... Librivox has nothing to do with Gutenberg's computer-generated files.  In fact, Librivox is philosophically opposed to "computer-generated" readings of literature.  The prevailing opinion at Librivox is that literature is better presented through the human voice.  While this may be a helpful link for those looking for Audio Books, it really has little to do with Librivox (the subject of the page).
 ---Gmackenzie 16:44, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Further Reading

message: Due to possible copyright conflict, the Agatha Christie books have been removed from the LibriVox catalog until this can be resolved. I have replaced the SOLO book listed in this article with another popular title from the LibriVox catalog. thistlechick 14:31, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed link to Agatha Christie book 

message: This is my first attempt and it seemed simple enough. Enjoy.Reason turns rancid 23:12, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spoken Article 

message: Hi. I've changed the article quite a bit. Hopefully you will think it has been improved. I'm aware that I have not included citations, but I will try to get round to it. Thanks. --82.69.202.14 (talk) 17:31, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: Is the budget really $0.00? Is this a joke? I am positive that their hosting fees for all those audio books are off the wall, so please post FACTUAL information.68.225.166.76 (talk) 15:53, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Obviously, there's no such thing as a free lunch, but I think the idea is that at present neither the members nor the organisers pay anything. They do live off the goodwill of the Internet Archive, who provide server space for all the audio files. --89.242.182.91 (talk) 00:36, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

text: There was no budget in the sense that LibriVox was not itself administering any money, and all expenses was being paid by third parties. However, this information should be changed, as it is no longer true. Hosting expenses are about $5000 a year, and LibriVox is currently having a campaign asking for donations. The goal is $20K. See post on LibriVox website: http://librivox.org/2010/02/24/librivox-needs-your-help/  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.213.241 (talk) 22:46, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Budget 

message: I've tried to make a template for linking to LibriVox recordings:

what do you think? I don't have a lot of experience with making templates though. I can't seem to find how to remove the lock. see User:IIVeaa/sandbox|my sandbox for more --IIVeaa (talk) 13:33, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template 

message: I would like to see "See also"
to similar projects.
{I am looking for some audiobook and need a lot of databases to lookup }  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.21.56.80 (talk) 16:56, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  See also 

message: The references/sources in the article are terrible - almost all seem to be blogs or internal LibriVox documents, both of which fail WP:RS. 
: Seconded. Particularly an issue on the quality section, where imo a falsely positive impression is given of  discussion around the issue of multiple readers and minimal baseline quality threshold. Most discussion I've seen of this over the years has been various shades of exasperated. LibriVox appears to be in perennial denial about this, and I suspect the tone of this article reflects that. 81.108.180.242 (talk) 14:47, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better sources 

message: Would this page be improved, sound less like an advertisement, if there were mention of other projects of this type? For instance, Guetnberg.org has an audio section I believe.
Are there any ideas how to improve this page to make it less like an Ad?  Sorry, I do not know how to sign this.— Preceding unsigned comment added by TimoleonWash (talk • contribs) 06:47, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I find nothing addy about this article and since the complaint above has not been elaborated for almost a year, I removed the advert-template. The reason no other similar projects are mentioned in the article is because this article is about LibriVox, not the other projects. Similar projects could be found in the categories "Audiobook companies and organizations" and "Collaborative projects". If the complaint is elaborated, we'll revisit this subject. --Bensin (talk) 19:52, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Make this page less like an Advertisement 

message: I would like to undertake a major re-write of this page. I have studied the page and this talk page and have many ideas to improve it greatly. I'm posting here to make sure it's OK to make these major changes, and also to see if any experienced wikipedia editor would like to be involved. Also, do folks just go ahead and make a major update, or do they put it someplace - like my sandbox - for review before publication? Thanks for your help TimoleonWash (talk) 18:53, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I have completed my proposed modifications of this page; the results are in my sandbox and will remain their for a day or two depending on response from here. The modifications I have made are not nearly as extensive as I first had hoped, but I took out a lot of stuff that seemed like "cheer leading" and added some referenced to MSM articles. TimoleonWash (talk) 20:33, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  I would like to undertake a major re-write of this page. 

message: Consequently I have removed the prior notice about too much 1st party perspective. TimoleonWash (talk) 17:45, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  I have changed this page hoping to improve it's objectivity.