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Statistics Thursday

Posted on December 1, 2005 by | Posted in For Volunteers, News | Comments: Comments Off on Statistics Thursday

So, Thursday is becoming stats day. We added another 27 volunteers this week (20% growth from last week), so the LibriVox family is now 157 souls. And though we are still a bit short on completed books — we’ve got 10 — we have a whole host of new projects underway, many of them solo.

We’ve got 10 completed books, 4 poems (many of them multiple recordings), 17 collaborative projects underway, and 32 solo projects on the go. That’s, potentially, 59 books freed into audio for the world. All titles save one are English – Liaisons Dangereuses being our only French project for the moment, but we’d be more than happy to have other non-English books too.

Joyce, Austen, Dostoyevsky, London, Nesbitt, Poe. Ayn Rand, Hawthorn, Dickens. etc. etc.

With all these books rolling in, we’ve started a cataloging and uploading project, with some coders, librarians, and coder-librarians, so it’ll be easier to keep track of what chapters you’ve signed up for, and to find the books you want.

We’ve also tested our site for accessibility for the visually impaired — it seems to pass our testing, does anyone have any expertise on this? If so, we’d be happy for some advice.

We always need more help – in lots of ways. Contact your library about us, talk to your kid’s English teacher. Call your local book club, send an email to a bibliophile friend. More info about volunteering: here.

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LibriVox – Poetry experiment

Posted on November 14, 2005 by | Posted in For Volunteers, News, site & admin | Comments: 2 Comments on LibriVox – Poetry experiment

OK, here’s an experiment. We’ve posted a poem in the forum (by William Blake), and we’re asking everyone and anyone to record a version of it. We’ll leave the poem open for a week.

This is a good way to cut your teeth if you haven’t recorded anything yet, and want to try. It’s also an illustration of something we at LibriVox find fascinating — the different ways people can read the same text.

The poem is short, and very good, so why not visit the forum and inspire yourself with, “The Voice of the Ancient Bard.”

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Forums Now Available

Posted on September 26, 2005 by | Posted in For Volunteers, News, site & admin | Comments: 4 Comments on Forums Now Available

Want to discuss the best way to record your chapters? Wonder about about how to pronounce character names? Are you eager to share a brilliant tip to help us all improve our readings?

Well now you can. We’ve added forums to LibriVox. We hope this will be a useful resource for all LibriVox readers, book curators, admins, and other volunteers.

Click on the forums link in the blue volunteers box to be directed to the new forums at mediatinker.com.

To participate in the forums, please register on the forum page.

Listeners, there’s a place in the forums for you to leave your suggestions, too.

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Call of the Wild

Posted on September 20, 2005 by | Posted in For Volunteers, upcoming titles | Comments: 9 Comments on Call of the Wild

So things are clicking along at LibriVox, and we hope to make the volunteering easier to keep track of soon. Also, as mentioned, we’ll be opening up the book selection process, and putting it into the capable hands of the volunteers (who have suggested, among others, Joyce’s Ulysses (!) , some Homer, a Dutch collection, Thucydides, The Golden Bough … ambitious!). Also a big benvenuto! to the many readers we seem to be getting from Italy … (How about an Italian version of Dante’s Inferno?)

In the mean time, we will be posting chapters to our catalogue as they come in, but still podcasting sequentially.

UPDATE:
Thus far we are fully-subscribed for: The Secret Agent, Frankenstein, Notes from the Underground, Psmith in the City, and Call of the Wild. And we still need volunteers for Tolstoy’s Childhood. (Please reserve a chapter of Tolstoy by commenting: here).

Now, as we are filling up I thought I would add another book: Jack London’s Call of the Wild. To reserve a chapter, please comment below. (Note I’m going to keep them small & relatively easy until we get a better set-up for volunteering). Make sure you:
a) name the chapters you claim
b) make it clear who you are

Call of the Wild
by Jack London
gutenberg e-text: here.

Chapters to be claimed:
-ch 1-2 – gord
-ch 3-4 – kristen
-ch 5-6 – jeano
-ch 7 – miette

NOTES:

  • save files: call_of_the_wild_1-2_london
  • ID3 tags:

  • album: call_of_the_wild
  • track: call_of_the_wild_ch_1-2
  • artist: london_j
  • Other notes:

  • PLEASE read recording notes before recording.

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