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miss stav · Joined: 05 Oct 2007 Posts: 4879 Location: Israel

The Life Of Charlotte Bronte Volume 1, By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

All audio files can be found on our catalog page: http://librivox.org/the-life-of-charlotte-bronte-volume-1-by-elizabeth-cleghorn-gaskell/

miss stav · Joined: 05 Oct 2007 Posts: 4879 Location: Israel

More than a year ago, volume 1 of this book has been started as a solo. Only one chapter has been recorded. The reader is Brontefan. Here is a link to this chapter:
http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/discontinued_solos/lifeofcbronte/thelifeofcb_01_gaskell.mp3
Time 16.33
Jo was the mc.
Ruth or Jo, would you be able to take this chapter to the project's folder and post it in the magic window?
I pled it, it sounds ok to me, may be a little to quiet. When we have a dpl, I would b very happy if he/she would pl this chapter again. After all, the reader is not around and I want to make sure that everything is ok.
Anne, can you count the words in the next chapters? If not now, would you be able to do this after Ruth sets up the magic window?
Stav.
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knotyouraveragejo · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:45 am Post subject:

Stav,

I've amplified the file for chapter 1 and removed a bit of the background hum as well. I've renamed it to your filename convention and moved it over to Ruth's folder for you. Here's the new link:

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/rg/thelifeofcharlottebronte_01_gaskell.mp3

The tags will need to be updated, but Ruth can do that for you when this is cataloged. I also still have the original on my computer in case it's needed.

Good Luck with the project. I'm glad you will be able to make use of this file.

Jo
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miss stav · Joined: 05 Oct 2007 Posts: 4879 Location: Israel

Thank you, Jo. I am very happy to use this file, and to bc this project.
By the way, would you like to read a chapter (or more) from this book?
Stav.
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annise · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:14 am Post subject:

THe word counts in the chapters range from 696 to 17,392 - so I am going to have to split some of them . I'm very new at this BCing so need some advice on what size is too big ? Should I split the 8000 word ones ? How about the 7000 word ones ?

Anne

miss stav · Joined: 05 Oct 2007 Posts: 4879 Location: Israel

Hi anne,
I think the chapters with 8000 words should be split into 2 parts, and those with more than 10000 words should be split into 3 parts. The one with more than 17000 words should be split even into 4 parts. About the chapters with 7000 words... I don't really know. I don't know if readers would take chapters with 7000 words, it is quite a big task.
Stav.
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RuthieG · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:26 am Post subject:

I'll be back with the Magic Window later, when I've worked out roughly how many sections you are going to need, Stav.

Ruth
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miss stav · Joined: 05 Oct 2007 Posts: 4879 Location: Israel

Ruth,
please make it 40 for a start. If we'll need to change this, we'll do that.
Stav.
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"I'm always thinking of you when I'm writing, even if it is not the kind of thing that you'll know of", Virginia Woolf.
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miss stav · Joined: 05 Oct 2007 Posts: 4879 Location: Israel

I thought about it again. As the chapters are so long, let's do it in 2 volumes. I am going to change my first post accordingly.
Stav.
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Let us meet in New Grub Street.

annise · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:10 am Post subject:

OK - well that will be 20 sections with 2 just over 6000 the biggest which seems OK to me

Anne

miss stav · Joined: 05 Oct 2007 Posts: 4879 Location: Israel

As we are doing volume 1, we would need 20 sections.
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RuthieG · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:00 am Post subject:

Very wise, I think. OK, 20 sections for Vol 1, then.

You will need to decide how you want the footnotes handled.

Also, I think it might be a good idea if it there were a note in the MW for any section that includes long sections in French.

Ruth
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annise · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:04 am Post subject:

All handled and ready for the MW thanks -
Sorry I wasn't a bit more organised but everything's OK now I think

Anne

miss stav · Joined: 05 Oct 2007 Posts: 4879 Location: Israel

About the footnotes, I think I would say this thing:
if they are important for the plot, let's read them. If they are not, they should not be read. If the are read, they should be read at the end of the paragraph. The reader would say "footnote for the sentence..." and "end of footnote".
If you think that this is to complicated, let's read the footnote right after the sentence. The reader would say "start of footnote" and "end of footnote".
What do you think?
Stav.
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"I'm always thinking of you when I'm writing, even if it is not the kind of thing that you'll know of", Virginia Woolf.
Let us meet in New Grub Street.

annise · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:24 am Post subject:

There are 5 at the end of the book
Anne