We are fully subscribed for Notes from the Underground and Psmith in the City, so I have added 2 more books. (If you wish to record some other book in its entirety yourself, just let me know). If you wish to volunteer to read chapters of the two chosen books, please comment below, and:
a) name the book you wish to read
b) name the chapters you claim
c) make it clear who you are
The new books are:
Frankenstein, or Modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
gutenberg e-text: here.
UPDATE: all chapters claimed
-Letters – eric c.
-ch 1-2 – carl
-ch 3-4 – ian (UPDATE)
-ch 5-6 – paula
-ch 7-8 – alex
-ch 9-10 – jeff
-ch 11-13 – karen
-ch 14-15 – kristen
-ch 16-18 – gord
-ch 19-20 – mjd-s
-ch 21-22 – eric s.
-ch 23-24 – hugh
NOTES:
- save files: frankenstein_1-2_shelley
- album: frankenstein
- track: frankenstein_ch_1-3
- artist: shelley_mw
- PLEASE read recording notes before recording.
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UPDATE
Childhood (note: *not* Boyhood!!)
by Leo Tolstoy
gutenberg e-text: here.
Chapters to be claimed:
-ch 1-3 – hugh
-ch 4-6 – ewa
-ch 7-9 – spunwithtears
-ch 10-12 – gautam p.
-ch 13-15 – damien h
-ch 16-18 – squiddhartha
-ch 19-21
-ch 22-24
-ch 25-27 – scoot
NOTES:
- save files: childhood_1-3_tolstoy
- album: childhood
- track: childhood_ch_1-3
- artist: tolstoy_l
- PLEASE read recording notes before recording.
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I’d like to do the letters in Frankenstein!
Thanks
I’ll take boyhood, ch 1-3.
I’ll take chapters 5-6 in Frankenstein. I’m host and producer of The Writing Show at http://www.writingshow.com.
I’ll take chapters 5-6 of Frankenstein. I’m producer and host of The Writing Show, where Hugh did a great interview a couple of weeks ago.
I’ll do Chapters 9 and 10 of Frankenstein. One of my favorite books!
I’ll take 11-13 of Frankenstein.
I’ll read 14-15 of Frankenstein.
I will read 3-4 of Frankenstein.
I will read 1-2 of Frankenstein. I’m nobody.
on behalf of ewa … ewa will take chapters 4-6 of boyhood.
I’ll take chapters 7-8 of Frankenstein. How exciting!
I’ll take 16-18 of Frankenstein
I got carried away and have done one of my chapters already. It’s here. Feedback welcome. I’m not sure how to set the bitrate?
OOOOOOooo! Put me down for chapters 19-20 of Frankenstein!
There’s a couple of “fiends” a “begone” and a “thence” in there!
Re: setting the bitrate:
In Audacity, go to File/Preferences, then to the File Formats tab and set the bitrate for MP3.
Put me down for Frankenstein ch 21-22. Put the candle back!
What is the time frame on getting the chapters you’ve offered to record and the date they are needed? I realize that you want them asap but, realistically, how much time would I have to record them?
objective is to have a whole book done before we start podcasting. also would like to release chaps mon,wed,fri. That being said, we’ve got half of Conrad done, one chapt of PSmith, and one chap of Frankenstein, none of Tolsoy. … so you’ve got some time, but yeah, sooner better than later.
cheers!
hugh.
Here I am, at last, after computer crashes and too many visitors to handle… I’d love to do the last two chapters of Tolstoy. How much time do I have?
Thanks,
Scoot
i will take ch 7-9 of Childhood.
hi scoot, no particular time frame – but sooner rather than later. we have a delay on conrad due to some tech problems on recording of chap 7! ideally, we’ll have all chapters submitted (and catalogued) before starting a podcast on a particular book.
hugh.
Hi,
I am making very tentitive steps into blog space as a result of discovering your wonderful project. As an expatriot living in a Chinese speaking community, I am an avid listener to audio books and dramatizations. Anyway, I see that chapters three and four of Frankenstein are still up for grabs, and would be more than happy to do some reading. Ian
Hi,
I am really excited part of such a great project. I am so glad someone had the vision of coming up with this idea. I would love to be of some assistance so I can selflessly make a difference in life of someone.
I would like to volunteer for the chapter 10-12 in book Childhood by Leo Tolstoy.
I would like to know what’s the deadline and how would I select a character. I am a bit unfamiliar with this whole process since this is my first time. I hope volunteers in this community take the time to visit my blog and write comments to my article (soon to come) on how we can spread the message about librivox and get some more people on board.
Hope to become friends and part of a great team.
Best Wishes,
Gautam Parekh
Heh! Looks like someone was already able to request chapters 10-12 before I got my hands on it. I’ll go ahead and take chapters 13-15! This is such an excellent project, I’ve always enjoyed audio books, and find it exciting to be part of such a great project.
Looking forward to my first release!
hi gautam, the idea is that you read and record the whole chapter selection (chs 10-12 for you). then we find a way to get the mp3 and/or ogg files to me.
I’ll grab Tolstoy’s chapters 16-18. Just glanced over them, and there’s a typo or two, but nothing insurmountable, I believe.
The characters appear to speak French and Russian – do you want accents, or would that be distracting?
Squiddhartha, please add accents or character voices as you desire. Some readers do, others do not. It is up to you!
I don’t mean to be critical, but the chapters that Karen lebenz read for are painful. Some of us have narrating skills and some of us don’t. Who ever read the chapter before her was fabulous.