Firstly, I urge the feet draggers on our older official selections (The Secret Agent, Notes from the Underground, Frankenstein, Childhood, Call of the Wild, and Psmith in the City) to get your chapters done. We will be participating in an event with the Internet Archive on October 25, and it would be great to have these finished by then. So please get to those microphones and start recording! If you are worried about quality, have stage fright, or are nervous about how your voice sounds, don’t be! You are volunteering for the good of humanity! If you are having problems recording your chaps, just let us know.

Second, we are throwing caution to the wind and adding a whole slew of new books.

The process will work as follows:

1. A “team leader” will volunteer for each book (book captain? book booster? … have a better name? let us know).
2. The team leader will look at the text, and section the book into reasonable chunks. One or several chaps, about 20 p per section.
3. The team leader will post the book title and the chapter segments in the Readers Wanted section of the forum (see format already there)
4. Volunteers then post to claim chapters, and the Book Leader will make sure everything adds up, and then assign “official” chapters to the volunteers.
5. Team leader will follow-up if readers seem to be having troubles getting their files finished.
6. The team leader will set a reasonable (soft) target for completion of the book, say 1 month for smaller books, 2 months for bigger books. This is flexible, but we don’t want things dragging on forever.
7. When files are done, contact LibriVox and your book leader.
8. As chapters come in, the book leader will update the forum.

For now, uploading will still be done by LibriVox. Any questions? … post here or on the forum!

Here are the next batch of books (all linked to the gutenberg text):

• Captain Cook’s Journal During the First Voyage Round the World – by Captain James Cook
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Five Children & It – by Edith Nesbit
• Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow – by Jerome K. Jerome
• The Innocents Abroad – by Mark Twain
• A Journey to the Interior of the Earth – by Jules Verne
• Leaves of Grass (poetry) – by Walt Whitman
• Treasure Island – by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Trial – by Franz Kafka
• An International Episode – by Henry James (Hugh is Team Leader)

Note also, for you Classics scholars out there, The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is still looking for readers.

We need a pinch-hitter to read Chapters 9-10 of Frankenstein (Jeff’s schedule got busier than expected). So if anyone would like to record 9-10, please let us know, by posting on the LibriVox forum.

Let’s jump in and demonstrate the advantages of the LibriVox system!

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