The Canterbury Tales

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volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain

started in August 2005 by Montreal-based writer Hugh McGuire, who set up a blog posing the question: "can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting?"

Within a month the first book, Jan. 2009 over 3000 unabridged books were made available

Around 90 percent of the catalogue is recorded in English, but recordings exist in 31 languages altogether (as of February 2010). Chinese, French and German are the most popular languages other than English amongst volunteers, but recordings have also been made in languages including Urdu and Tagalog.

Criticisms
The LibriVox discussion forums regularly include feedback on the site and its contents, including negative comments. A frequent concern of listeners is the site's policy of allowing any recording to be published as long as it is basically understandable and faithful to the source text. This means that some recordings are of less-than-optimum audio fidelity, and some feature background noises, non-native accents or other perceived imperfections in comparison to professionally-recorded audiobooks.

Der Inhalt ist ohne copyright, aber die CD/DVD als Material bleibt Besitz.