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Posted on February 1, 2014 by | Posted in about LibriVox, Blog, Books, For Volunteers, Monthly Picks, News | Comments: 6 Comments on Together

This month, the 22nd Olympic Winter Games take place in Russia, and thousands of people from all over the world gather in a celebration of team spirit. More things we can achieve when we work together can be found in 10 gems from our catalog.

Our family is the closest group of people we ever know. In Five Little Peppers and How They Grow, Margaret Sidney tells the story of the Pepper family that, although very poor, goes through life together and meets all adversities with spirit and good humour.

Sometimes however, you need more than one family to accomplish things – raising a barn, for example requires the help of the whole neighbourhood. Read the Recollections of Life in Ohio from 1813 – 1840 by William Cooper Howells for more insight into neighbourly help and friendship.

Friendship is not all about mutual aid, but also about having fun. In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s book of poetry, a group of friends spend the night in a tavern telling each other a number of Tales of a Wayside Inn.

Sometimes, people need to join forces to help those who cannot help themselves. In 1837, An Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women did exactly that, and in An Address to Free Colored Americans they stated their intentions for the abolitionist movement of the time.

Similarly, The Dog Crusoe and His Master and two of their friends take on a journey through the prairies to bring about peace between the White and Red races. Read all about their adventures in the book by R. M. Ballantyne.

Much greater distances and even more nations are covered in The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph. The father of Henry M. Field spent 13 years of his life to connect Europeans and Americans by a cable laid through the ocean, the beginning of a world wide network.

From a connected Earth we move into space – where meeting The Aliens is inevitable. So seems war, but a small accident brings both sides together trying to avoid destruction. Read the story by Murray Leinster and find out whether they will succeed.

Wouldn’t you want to spend as much time as close as possible with your beloved? Imagine a Ten-Foot Chain binding you together for three days and nights – would your love survive that? Four authors have been asked the same question, and each of them came up with another story…

The last two books on this month’s list are two of the most prominent examples of what LibriVox volunteers can achieve together:

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy took almost five years until completion – and 40 readers for all roles of this dramatic reading of the famous spy story set during the French Revolution.

In a similar league is our recently completed second version of James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses: More than 80 readers – the majority of them for the dramatized section “Circe” – took on this difficult book and brought it to completion in less than four years.

Enjoy – and read together!

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Role Models

Posted on January 1, 2014 by | Posted in about LibriVox, Blog, Books, For Volunteers, Monthly Picks, News | Comments: Comments Off on Role Models

A New Year prompts many people to changes, big and small. If you don’t really know what to aspire to, why not look at famous people for inspiration with 10 gems from our catalog.

The story of a big personal change is told by W. Somerset Maugham in his novel The Moon and Sixpence. Follow stock broker Charles Strickland who leaves everything behind to become an artist in France and Tahiti, like the painter Gauguin on whose life the story is based.

Great changes for innumerable people are brought about by inventors. Did you know that, among other things, the telephone, microphone, electric motors and lights were invented by a single man? Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin wrote the autobiography of Edison, His Life and Inventions.

It is often hard to see famous people as mere mortals possessing virtues and flaws alike. Lytton Strachey made no such mistake and his biography of Queen Victoria reveals the normal woman behind the admired monarch.

Decidedly more tongue-in-cheek – what else to expect from John Kendrick Bangs – is The Autobiography of Methuselah, who purportedly lived to the age of 969 years and witnessed a large part of the Old Testament up to Noah’s flood.

Henry V, another monarch, brought a new era of relative peace to England – while waging war in France. William Shakespeare recounts the King’s life in his eponymous drama.

Shakespeare himself is maybe the world’s best (known) dramaticist. John A. Joyce wrote a fictional biography of the famous writer’s life, from the point of view of a life long friend in Shakspere: Personal Recollections.

Let’s stay in England for one more great person: Alfred the Great. How he fought to defend Christianity against the invasion of the Danish is beautifully told by G. K. Chesterton in his epic poem The Ballad of the White Horse.

A great leader on the other side of the ocean was Geronimo. Written towards the end of his 23 years as prisoner of war, Geronimo’s Story of His Life is an account of his entire life, his battles, victories, and the final defeat against the US government.

The life of Elizabeth Keckley went the other way. Born a slave, she was able to use the money she earned as a seamstress to buy her freedom. Behind the Scenes describes her life and gives an interesting glimpse into the work she did for the First Lady Mary Lincoln.

Andrew Carnegie was one of the wealthiest men in the US. A poor immigrant from Scotland, he became a well know steel industry leader before turning into a philanthropist in order to improve society. The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, just finished before his death, gives more details.

Enjoy – and have A Happy New Year!

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Giving Gifts

Posted on December 1, 2013 by | Posted in about LibriVox, Books, For Volunteers, Monthly Picks, News | Comments: 4 Comments on Giving Gifts

Well, it’s the season where people are happy to give… So, staying with the tradition, we give to you 10 exclusive gems from our catalog.

Giving books is probably as old as books themselves. Meant as a “gift book” to highlight the facets of the writing of G. K. Chesterton,  The Wit and Wisdom of Chesterton is a collection of his non-fiction essays.

Once books became mass produced, you had to find something else for the more excentric recipient. So it came that Thomas Dallam, on order of Queen Elizabeth I, had to deliver an organ across Europe. Dallam’s Travels with an Organ to the Grand Signieur, 1599 – 1600 describes his exciting journey.

Assume you have found the perfect gift to impress a woman – and then it disappears during delivery! What happened to The Stolen White Elephant and whether it could be recovered can be read in the short story by Mark Twain.

Not quite stolen, but not in the right hands either is Lady Windermere’s Fan, a present from her husband. Will she be able to get it back in time without her husband noticing its absence? Have fun with the twisted plot of Oscar Wilde’s play.

Another fun story is the one of The Dragon of Wantley. Owen Wister retells the “true” story of the dangerous dragon that terrorized Yorkshire in the 13th century, and how it was slain just in time for Christmas.

Imagine you know the one thing your partner wishes for – but you cannot afford it. Would you give up your own most prized possession – like Jim and Della do in O. Henry’s short story The Gift of the Magi – to make your beloved happy?

More short stories suitable for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were written by Edward Everett Hale and collected together in this little book – a true gift!

Another collection – this time of poems – is Christmas Roses. They were written by Lizzie Lawson and Robert Ellice Mack, not all of them revolve around Christmas, but they are beautiful in any case.

A somewhat more sober but still humorous view on what he calls The Feast of St. Friend has Arnold Bennett. Especially his opinions on giving gifts are as modern as if written yesterday and not more than 100 years ago.

Nobody wants to be sick during the holidays, but that’s exactly what happens to Lloyd in The Little Colonel’s Christmas Vacation, which turns out to be longer than expected. However, there is a lot to do – and to learn – in the book by Annie Fellows Johnston.

Enjoy – and Happy Gift Giving and Receiving too!

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1000th non-English project!

Posted on November 8, 2013 by | Posted in about LibriVox, Books, For Volunteers, News | Comments: 3 Comments on 1000th non-English project!

book coverAnother milestone for LibriVox!
We have recently catalogued our 1000th non-English project!
It is the book “Ferien vom Ich“, read in German by Rebecca.
Congratulations!
Paul Keller, the author of the book, was one of the most read authors at the beginning of the 20th century. His books had a total circulation of 5 million and were translated into 17 languages.
And now, on to the next 1000!


To celebrate this milestone, the LibriVox community (and its friends) has translated this post in as many languages as possible – can you guess which ones?

Ein weiterer Meilenstein fuer LibriVox!
Wir haben vor kurzem unser 1000stes Nicht-Englisches Projekt fertiggestellt! Es handelt sich um das Buch “Ferien vom Ich“, auf Deutsch gelesen von Rebecca.
Wir gratulieren herzlich!
Paul Keller, der Autor des Buches, war einer der meistgelesenen Autoren des beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts. Seine Bücher hatten eine Gesamtauflage von 5 Millionen und wurden in 17 Sprachen übersetzt.
Auf zu den nächsten 1000!

Încă un punct de referința pentru LibriVox!
Recent am catalogat proiectul numarul 1000.
Este cartea “Ferien vom Ich“, citită în limba germană de către Rebecca.
Felicitări!
Paul Keller, autorul cărții, a fost unul dintre cei mai citiți scriitori la începutul secolului 20. Cărțile sale au avut un tiraj total de peste 5 milioane și au fost traduse în 17 limbi.
Și acum, spre următoarea 1000 !

¡Otro gran acontecimiento para LibriVox!
¡Recientemente catalogamos nuestro milésimo proyecto no-inglés!
Fue el libro “Ferien vom Ich“, leído en alemán por Rebecca.
¡Felicidades!
Paul Keller, el autor del libro, fue uno de los autores más destacados a principios del siglo veinte. Sus libros circularon cinco millones de copias y se tradujeron en 17 idiomas.
Y ahora, ¡leámos otros mil!

Ακόμη ένα ορόσημο για το LibriVox!
Πρόσφατα προσθέσαμε στον κατάλογο το χιλιοστό μη-Αγγλικό έργο!
Είναι το βιβλίο “Ferien vom Ich“, ηχογραφημένο στα Γερμανικά από τη Rebecca.
Συγχαρητήρια!
Ο Paul Keller, ο συγγραφέας του βιβλίου, ήταν ένας από τους πιο πολυδιαβασμένους συγγραφείς στην αρχή του 20ού αιώνα. Τα βιβλία του είχαν συνολική κυκλοφορία 5 εκατομμυρίων και μεταφράστηκαν σε 17 γλώσσες.
Και τώρα, πάμε για τα επόμενα 1000!

Ecce novum tropaeum LibriVoci!
Nuper millesimus liber sermone non-Anglico recitatus digestus est a nobis. Fuit liber nomine “Ferien vom Ich“, sermone Germanico lectus a Rebecca.
Macte virtute!
Paul Keller auctor fuit librorum saepissime perlectorum saeculo vicesimo ineunte. Quinquagesiens centena milia exemplaria eius operum – qua conversa erant in XVII diversas linguas – sparsa sunt per totum orbem terrarum.
Sed nunc, agedum! Ad altera milia!

En ny milepæl for Librivox!
Den 1000. projekt i et sprog, som ikke er englesk, er lige blevet sat ind i vores katalog: “Ferien vom Ich“, læst på tysk af Rebecca.
Tillykke!
Paul Keller, bogens forfatter, var en af de mest læste forfattere i starten af 20. århundredet. I alt 5 millioner af hans bøger cirkulerede, og de blev oversat til 17 sprog-
Nu for de næste 1000!

또 하나의 LibriVox 의 이정표를 알려드립니다!
우리는 최근에 비영어 프로젝트에서 1000번째 비영어 오디오책을 목록에 새로 넣었습니다!
바로 레베카 (Rebecca) 가 독일어로 읽은 “”나”로부터의 휴가” Ferien vom Ich (“‘나’로부터의 휴가”) 라는 책입니다.
축하합니다!
이 책의 저자인 파울 켈러 (Paul Keller) 는 20 세기초에 전 세계적으로 많이 읽히는 책을 쓴 저자 중의 한명이었습니다.
그의 책들은 총 5백만 권이 17개 언어로 번역되어 전세계적으로 읽혔답니다.
자, 이제 다음 1000 권의 책을 기대하세요!

Egy újabb mérföldkő a LibriVox életében!
A napokban került be katalógusunkba az 1000. nem angol nyelvű projekt!
Ez a könyv a “Ferien vom Ich“, amit német nyelven olvasott fel Rebecca.
Gratulálunk!
Paul Keller, a könyv szerzője, az egyik legolvasottabb szerző volt a 20. század elején. Könyveiből összesen 5 millió példány került forgalomba, 17 nyelven.
És most… irány a következő 1000!

Още едно важно събитие за LibriVox!
Ние наскоро каталогизирахме нашият хиляден не-английски проект!
Това е книгата “Ferien vom Ich” прочетено на немски език от Rebecca.
Поздравления!
Paul Keller, авторът на книгата, беше един от най-четените автори в началото на 20-ти век. Книгите му са имали общ тираж 5 милиона и са преведени на 17 езика.
А сега към следващите 1000!

Mais um marco para o LibriVox!
Recentemente catalogamos nosso milésimo projeto em uma língua que não o inglês.
Foi o livro “Ferien vom Ich“, lido em alemão por Rebecca.
Parabéns!
Paul Keller, autor do livro, foi um dos autores mais lidos do início do século 20. Seus livros circularam em 5 milhões de exemplares e foram traduzidos em 17 idiomas.
E agora, avante para os próximos 1000!

Новая верста в жизни LibriVox!
Недавно в наши каталоги поступил 1000-й неанглоязычный проект!
Это книга под названием””Ferien vom Ich“, которую зачитала Ребека (Rebecca).
Наши поздравления!
Пол Кэлэр (Paul Keller), который написал эту книгу, был одним из самых читаемых писателей начала 20 века. Его книги издали в количестве 5 миллионов экземпляров на 17 языках мира.
А теперь… даешь следующую 1000!

Librivox a franchi une nouvelle étape!
Nous venons juste de boucler et cataloguer le 1000ème projet non-anglophone: “Ferien vom Ich“, enregistré en allemand par Rebecca.
Félicitations!
Paul Keller, l’auteur du livre, était l’un des auteurs les plus lus au début du XXème siècle. Ses livres ont été distribués à 5 millions d’exemplaires et traduits en 17 langues.
C’est parti pour 1000 de plus!

LibriVox başka bir kilometre taşı ulaştı!
Şimdi 1000 İngilizce dili olmayan proje Katalogimizda var!
Bu Rebecca tarafından Almanca olarak okunan kitap “Ferien vom Ich” vardır.
Tebrikler!
Paul Keller, kitabın yazarı, 20. yüzyılın başında en çok okunan yazarlarından biridir. Bugüne kadar 5 milyon toplam kitaplari satılmış ve 17 dilde tercüme edilmiştir.
Ve şimdi, bir sonraki 1000 üzerinde!

Un’altra tappa fondamentale per LibriVox!
Abbiamo catalogato recentemente il nostro millesimo progetto non-inglese!
Questo libro è “Ferien vom Ich“, letto in tedesco da Rebecca.
Congratulazioni!
Paul Keller, l’autore del libro, era uno degli autori più letti all’inizio del XX secolo. I suoi libri avevano una circolazione totale di 5 milioni di copie e sono stati tradotti in 17 lingue.
E adesso, partiamo per il prossimo 1000!

LibriVox又一个里程碑！
最近，我们已经完成编目第千个非英语项目！
这伻书交“Ferien vom Ich“,Rebecca 拥德语读。
祝贺！
Paul Keller，是在二十世纪初，被最多的读作者之一。他的书，总发行量五百万，被翻译成十七种语言。
现在，进到下一个千！

Ytterligare en milsten för LibriVox!
Vi har nyligen katalogiserat vårt 1000nde icke engelska projekt!
Det är boken ”Ferien vom Ich” läst på tyska av Rebecca.
Gratulerar!
Paul Keller, författare till boken, var en de mest lästa författarna i början av 20:e århundradet. Ans böcker hade en totalupplaga på 5 miljoner och var översatta till 17 språk.
Och nu, på väg mot nästa 1000!

Kort geleden kwam ons 1000ste niet-Engelstalige project af!
Dat was het Duitstalige boek “Ferien vom Ich“, voorgelezen door Rebecca.
Proficiat!
Paul Keller, de schrijver van het boek, was aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw een van de meest gelezen auteurs. Zijn boeken zijn in 17 talen vertaald. Er zijn 5 miljoen exemplaren van gedrukt.
En nu, op naar de volgende 1000!

Kolejny kamień milowy w rozwoju LibriVox!
Ostatnio do naszego katalogu trafił tysięczny projekt nagrany w języku innym niż angielski!
Jest nim książka “Ferien vom Ich” czytana po niemiecku przez Rebeccę.
Gratulacje!
Jej autor, Paul Keller, był jednym z najbardziej poczytnych pisarzy początku XX wieku. Jego książki rozeszły się w nakładzie 5 milionów egzemplarzy i zostały przetłumaczone na 17 języków.
A teraz – czekamy na następny 1000!

リブリボックスがもうひとつのマイルストーンに到達しました。
英語以外で１０００個目となるプロジェクトがカタログされました。
レベッカ(Rebecca)がドイツ語で読んだ「フェリエン フォン イッヒ」(Ferien vom Ich)です。
おめでとうございます。
この本の著者、ポール　ケラー(Paul Keller)は、２０世紀始めの最も読まれている作家です。
彼の作品は、５００万部発行され、１７の言語に翻訳されています。
さて、次の１０００に向かう時です。

Solution (translated by): German (Availle) – Romanian (Mirela) – Spanish (gypsygirl) – Greek (Rapunzelina) – Latin (Leni) – Danish (neckertb) – Korean (Jaesook) – Hungarian (dii) – Bulgarian (Rapunzelina) – Portuguese (Leni) – Russian (dii) – French (neckertb) – Turkish (Carolin) – Italian (dii) – Chinese (MaryAnnSpiegel) – Swedish (Rowland) – Dutch (Bart) – Polish (Piotrek81) – Japanese (ekzemplaro)

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