<story><title>LibriVox: Free Public Domain Audiobooks</title><url>https://librivox.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>louniks</author><text>Hey, so I&amp;#x27;m the very part time volunteer sysadmin for LibriVox, can I use this opportunity to ask for help?&lt;p&gt;I have a day job and two kids, the amount of time and energy I give to LibriVox is sufficient to keep the lights on, but not much else.&lt;p&gt;We don&amp;#x27;t have money, in fact we don&amp;#x27;t even have a legal entity, any donations we get are handled by Internet Archive, who also kindly provide us our two servers (yes, only two).&lt;p&gt;If you want to help and know PHP and CodeIgniter, we&amp;#x27;d be very happy to have you on board! While I &lt;i&gt;am&lt;/i&gt; a developper, it&amp;#x27;s currently Python, and not at all web related. LibriVox&amp;#x27;s tech sack has fallen woefully out of date (PH 5.6, CodeIgniter 2), and I can&amp;#x27;t bring it up to date all by my self.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll be honest, it&amp;#x27;s not glamorous work. There&amp;#x27;s no automated testing, anything we change has to be tested and validated by the volunteers themselves - who are awesome, by the way. But we&amp;#x27;re a fantastic little nugget of Internet, and I think we should stick around on a solid tech stack for as long as possible ;)&lt;p&gt;All of our code is on GitHub: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;LibriVox&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;LibriVox&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>LibriVox: Free Public Domain Audiobooks</title><url>https://librivox.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reedwolf</author><text>There are also a huge number of audiobooks available on YouTube.&lt;p&gt;I made a Reddit bot [0] that continually scans comments across the entire site for mentions of science fiction and fantasy book titles. It uses a dataset of book title&amp;#x2F;author pairs that were scraped from the Speculative Fiction Database, a compendium of all known science fiction&amp;#x2F;fantasy literary works.&lt;p&gt;If an SFF book title&amp;#x2F;author pair is detected in a comment, the bot searches YouTube for an audiobook of the mentioned title, then replies with a link to it should one be found.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;EmotionalField&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;EmotionalField&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>