I have crappy internet at my SO’s house, so I haven’t seen the video. However, this is pretty cool. I think writ large, it would be kind of variable. Just like LibriVox. Some of the recordings–maybe even most–will be amateurish and annoying but many will stand out as being on par with professional versions.
In any case, freeing culture from the grasps of the excessively monied is a sweet sweet thing. More of this kind of thing, please, universe.
