coming attractions & book suggestions

Posted on September 22, 2005 by | Posted in site & admin, upcoming titles | Comments: 6 Comments on coming attractions & book suggestions

We’ve had some technical problems with Chapter 7 of the Secret Agent. After much toiling and voice modulation a wonderful (and London-accented!) Conrad rendition was produced by Lloyd Davis. Unfortunately, the mp3 files seemed to get corrupted with big patches of Audacity silence. Any Audacity experts out there, please lend a hand if you can.

On the home front, we are fully-subscribed now for:

  • The Secret Agent
  • Psmith in the City
  • Notes from the Underground
  • Call of the Wild

Tolstoy’s Childhood, for some reason, still needs voices to go with it’s chapters! To hear why we chose Childhood, have a listen to Dale’s excellent rendition of chapters 7-9). To reserve a highly-coveted Childhood chapter, please comment here.

Two other points of note.

1. While we will only podcast sequentially one (or 2?) books at a time, we’ll post chapters as they come in to our LibriVox catalogue of books. So if you want to listen to not-yet-“released” LibriVox recordings, or to link to your recording, check the catalogue and it should be there.

2. We want your suggestions for LibriVox books. Please post your book suggestions below. Also, we would like the salespeople among you to go out and recruit volunteers to record books which you suggest … we’ll award special public domain prizes (yet to be determined) to anyone who can gather volunteers for a complete book. Spread the public domain audio gospel!

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6 comments

  1. Ehud says:

    How about something a little different, just to make things more exciting? For example,

    Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/849)

    Captain Cook’s Journal During the First Voyage Round the World by James Cook (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8106.html.utf8.gz)

  2. Ehud says:

    How about trying other styles of books, for example:

    Captain Cook’s Journal During the First Voyage Round the World by James Cook (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/8106)

    Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/849)

  3. I realize they’re very long, but I would love to do some Dickens books. Perhaps A Christmas Carol for a start. We could have it done by the holidays.

  4. Aaron A. says:

    Can you clarify how to pronounce ‘librivox’? I’m assuming it’s ‘li’ as in ‘liberal’, one of your readers pronounced it ‘li’ as in ‘library’.

  5. hugh says:

    aaron, I *think* it’s:
    LEEB-REE-vox

    or
    Lib-REE-vox

    but not,
    LIE-BREE-vox

  6. Bob Hall says:

    I can’t get into spanish books.
    The list keeps popping back to english books every time I select a Spanish catagory.
    hallbobandjean@aol.com

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