Lifehacker.com sends a pointer our way, highlighting our audiobook recording advice.

And they added this wonderful illustration of why modulation is important:

Modulate. Never forget Ferris Bueller. “In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the… Anyone? Anyone?… the Great Depression, passed the… Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act?” Monotones are evil. Bring life and vitality to your reading.

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Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island is one of the great pirate adventure stories, and is our featured book seeking volunteers this week, comment below here to sign up to read a chapter.

Chapters to be claimed:
*ch 1-2 – Squiddhartha
*ch 3-4 – Gord
*ch 5-6 – Kara
*ch 7-8
*ch 9-10
*ch 11-12
*ch 13-14 – Squiddhartha
*ch 15-16 – Hugh
*ch 17-18
*ch 19-20
*ch 21-22
*ch 23-24
*ch 25-26
*ch 27-28 – Alex Foster
*ch 29-30
*ch 31-32
*ch 33-34

If you are interested in volunteering to read chapters from another book, or suggesting a book to read, take a look at our Forum, where readers are needed for Kafka, Edith Nesbit, Jules Verne, Walt Whitman, and Thucydides, among others.

So we have a whole new batch of books to record, ten of them, and we need your voices.

All books were suggested by volunteers.

Curious about what we’ve chosen? Feel the urge to read out loud? Think that everyone should be listening to great literature on their way to work instead of top 40 hits? Get a kick out of contributing to the good of all humanity?

Well we have just the thing. Check out our Forum in the “readers wanted” section, and post to reserve a chapter of a book you love, or would love to read.

Or comment here and we’ll walk you through it. The world is waiting to hear all this great writing, and you can help.

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