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Rev. Steve · Joined: 22 Oct 2005 Posts: 174 Location: Iowa

This project is now complete and can be downloaded from the LibriVox catalogue: http://librivox.org/the-origin-of-species-by-charles-darwin/

The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection; or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Sixth London Edition, with all Additions and Corrections.
By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S.

Target completion date: 28 February 2007

Gutenberg e-text: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2009

This is difficult reading, it is college level, or beyond; it is a serious, sober, scientific text, it was not written to be entertaining, and sometimes it is quite disinteresting. Please be aware of this when claiming chapters, and be committed to finishing the chapters you claim.
(To claim a chapter, please post your selection in this forum.)

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At the Beginning of the Chapter Say:

"This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox.org"
If you wish, identify yourself, by saying as much or as little as you are comfortable with, of:
"Recorded by Your Name, City, Web Address, The current Month and Year"
Then introduce your recording by saying:
"The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection; or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Sixth London Edition, by Charles Darwin, Chapter Number ??, chapter title"

At the end of the chapter say:

"End of chapter ??"
If you happen to be reading Chapter 15, add: " End of: The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection; or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Sixth London Edition, by Charles Darwin; thank you for listening."

Include the tedious initial list of chapter contents � but please � for the love of all that is Holy and good � introduce it with the words "Contents of this chapter include: ...� and leave a pause afterwords. Otherwise the listener will hear the chapter title, and expect to get into the text, but instead be submitted to a bewildering array of seemingly random text for the first 30 seconds.

DO continue to make sure that you are providing a logical break between the end of one subchapter, and the announcement of the next; I continue to think that this is the most important part of all of this.

Questions regarding pronunciation:

Take a listen to Betsie�s remarkable recording of the glossary. If there is a word you are still wondering about after listening to the glossary � feel free to ask.

GLOSSARY OF THE PRINCIPAL SCIENTIFIC TERMS USED IN THE PRESENT VOLUME
Runtime at which the following words appear in the recording
(each being the first in their alphabetical set):

01:00 - ABERRANT
04:54 - BALANUS
06:03 - CAMBRIAN SYSTEM
11:08 - DEGRADATION
12:26 - EDENTATA
13:44 - FAUNA
15:28 - GALLINACEOUS BIRDS
17:27 - HABITAT
19:26 - ICHNEUMONIDAE
20:37 - LACUNAE
22:46 - MALACOSTRACA
26:51 - NASCENT
28:08 - OCELLI
29:56 - PACHYDERMS
35:41 - RADICLE
37:52 - SACRAL
40:54 - TARSUS
42:23 - UMBELLIFERAE
43:00 - VASCULAR
43:32 - WHORLS
43:45 - ZOEA-STAGE

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Title: Chapter Title ("Variation Under Nature" for example. If you have a very long title name, you may choose to use only the portion before the semicolon.)
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(EDITED by:ChipDoc) About �Evolution, Creationism, Intelligent Design:�

This thread is for the business of creating this audiobook, rather than for a discussion of the subject matter. If you are interested in participating in a discussion, we invite you to visit:
http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16408#16408

With thanks to LibraryLady for stepping up in the interim, effective immediately Rev. Steve will be reassuming the duties of coordinator of this project. Thanks Steve!
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thistlechick · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:47 pm Post subject:

*jumps up and down* Oh, Me! Me! I want to read the Glossary... sign me up for that *grins* ... seriously... I won't do the Index though hehe
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LibraryLady · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:51 pm Post subject:

Chapter 1 please.
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Rev. Steve · Joined: 22 Oct 2005 Posts: 174 Location: Iowa

There you are.

There is a section before the table of contents, that is little more than a review of the literature � PLEASE do not read that as the introduction. Just ignore it. Maybe we will append it to the glossary.

And Betsy � if you are serious I will gladly give you the glossary � but I will be confused. Very confused.
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kayray · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:10 am Post subject:

I'll take
Chapter 02 - Variation Under Nature
!!!

I'm VERY excited about this. Thanks for getting it started!

Kara
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thistlechick · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:12 am Post subject:

Rev. Steve · Joined: 22 Oct 2005 Posts: 174 Location: Iowa

You are referring to the paragraph of thanks to Mr. W.S. Dallas...

Include. It explains � at least in part � why we might be including the glossary

VERY confused.
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thistlechick · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:00 am Post subject:

thistlechick · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:21 am Post subject:

Yes, I had thought of that... I'll do my best to get it completed in the next couple of days... I'll see if I can also put together a mini index for the file so that readers will know approximately at what timestamp to look for the beginning of a range of words (i.e. A - 03:25, B - 10:43, etc.)
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raynr · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:30 pm Post subject:

As I currently work on statistical genetics, I have to read a chapter. Please give me Chapter V - Laws on variation. You could also ask ceastman, his profile says that he is a molecular biologist and he might perhaps also be interested to read something.

What shell we do with the subchapters? Probably not to read them all at the beginning of the chapter. But do you want us to signify them somehow (e.g. "Subchapter 1: Effects of changed conditions"), or just to read the title of them?

hugh · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:19 pm Post subject:

chap3-but not too soon!
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Kristen · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:48 pm Post subject:

Please put me down for Chapter 04 - Natural Selection; or the survival of the fittest.
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Gesine · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject:

08 (Instinct), please.
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Rev. Steve · Joined: 22 Oct 2005 Posts: 174 Location: Iowa

That is a fine question Raynr, I think you are spot on with dropping the subchapters from the beginning of the chapter, its sort of like reading the table of contents.

I don�t think that the subchapters need to be enumerated though. I think that as you are reading the text, and come to the close of one subchapter, just pause to create a break in the text, announce the title of the next subchapter, pause, and go on. That should be easy to follow � the key is creating the logical break in the text and announcing the title.
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ndoo · LibriVox Admin Team Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 166

This is a very interesting project. I'd like to help out. Please sign me up for Chapter 15.

Best,
Nikolle