LibrivoxOh, I love this:
Mrs. S., who teaches Language Arts 8, at Fredericktown Intermediate in Fredericktown, Ohio, is studying Call of the Wild with her class … she posted this note on the class webpage:
Some Favorite Links:
* Call of the Wild Complete text of the book we are reading!
* Call of the Wild–mp3 Complete audio book–free!
That’s a link to us, by the way.
Psmith continues his adventures … read by our favourite audio gourmet, podchef (by the way check out his freely-available & beautiful pdf cookbook – I made the chili jam & it was really really good):
Psmith in the City – Chapters 4-6
mp3 audio file: Psmith in the City, Chapters 4-6
Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
Read by: Neal the Podchef
Bit rate: 64 kbps
Psmith in the Cithy LibriVox catalog page (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)
Next up (Thursday): Chapters 7-9, read by our catalogger extraordinaire kara.
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This week, it’s P.G. Wodehouse. From wikipedia:
Described by Sean O’Casey as “English literature’s performing flea”, Wodehouse was an acknowledged master of English prose admired both by contemporaries like Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers like Salman Rushdie, Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett.
Best-known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented lyricist who worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song “Bill” in Show Boat.
I didn’t know he was a lyricist!… anyway, “Psmith in the City” was published in 1910, and remains a comic classic. Here’s Kristen with Chapters 1-3.
Psmith in the City – Chapters 1-3
mp3 audio file: Psmith in the City, Chapters 1-3
Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
Read by: Kristen McQuillin
Bit rate: 64 kbps
Call of the Wild LibriVox catalog page (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)
Next up (Wednesday): Chapters 4-6, read by the podchef.
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LibriVox fans, volunteers and curious tourists may like to visit Distributed Proofreaders and offer their services there, or just send them a note of thanks. This group does much of the background work that has allowed LibriVox to exist – they are the proofreaders who get gutenberg.org e-texts into shap to publish (oh that should be: “into shape”).
And to boot they are a totally volunteer, distributed group (we like that, a lot).
Here’s their FAQ … oh and for LibriVox readers who find typos in the gutenberg texts, here what to do to help.