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Posted on September 22, 2005 by | Posted in site & admin, upcoming titles | Comments: 6 Comments on coming attractions & book suggestions

We’ve had some technical problems with Chapter 7 of the Secret Agent. After much toiling and voice modulation a wonderful (and London-accented!) Conrad rendition was produced by Lloyd Davis. Unfortunately, the mp3 files seemed to get corrupted with big patches of Audacity silence. Any Audacity experts out there, please lend a hand if you can.

On the home front, we are fully-subscribed now for:

  • The Secret Agent
  • Psmith in the City
  • Notes from the Underground
  • Call of the Wild

Tolstoy’s Childhood, for some reason, still needs voices to go with it’s chapters! To hear why we chose Childhood, have a listen to Dale’s excellent rendition of chapters 7-9). To reserve a highly-coveted Childhood chapter, please comment here.

Two other points of note.

1. While we will only podcast sequentially one (or 2?) books at a time, we’ll post chapters as they come in to our LibriVox catalogue of books. So if you want to listen to not-yet-“released” LibriVox recordings, or to link to your recording, check the catalogue and it should be there.

2. We want your suggestions for LibriVox books. Please post your book suggestions below. Also, we would like the salespeople among you to go out and recruit volunteers to record books which you suggest … we’ll award special public domain prizes (yet to be determined) to anyone who can gather volunteers for a complete book. Spread the public domain audio gospel!

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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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Childhood & Frankenstein

Posted on September 13, 2005 by | Posted in upcoming titles | Comments: 28 Comments on Childhood & Frankenstein

We are fully subscribed for Notes from the Underground and Psmith in the City, so I have added 2 more books. (If you wish to record some other book in its entirety yourself, just let me know). If you wish to volunteer to read chapters of the two chosen books, please comment below, and:

a) name the book you wish to read
b) name the chapters you claim
c) make it clear who you are

The new books are:

Frankenstein, or Modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

gutenberg e-text: here.

UPDATE: all chapters claimed
-Letters – eric c.
-ch 1-2 – carl
-ch 3-4 – ian (UPDATE)
-ch 5-6 – paula
-ch 7-8 – alex
-ch 9-10 – jeff
-ch 11-13 – karen
-ch 14-15 – kristen
-ch 16-18 – gord
-ch 19-20 – mjd-s
-ch 21-22 – eric s.
-ch 23-24 – hugh

NOTES:

  • save files: frankenstein_1-2_shelley

    • ID3 tags:

  • album: frankenstein
  • track: frankenstein_ch_1-3
  • artist: shelley_mw

    • Other notes:

  • PLEASE read recording notes before recording.

UPDATE

Childhood (note: *not* Boyhood!!)
by Leo Tolstoy

gutenberg e-text: here.

Chapters to be claimed:
-ch 1-3 – hugh
-ch 4-6 – ewa
-ch 7-9 – spunwithtears
-ch 10-12 – gautam p.
-ch 13-15 – damien h
-ch 16-18 – squiddhartha
-ch 19-21
-ch 22-24
-ch 25-27 – scoot

NOTES:

  • save files: childhood_1-3_tolstoy

    • ID3 tags:

  • album: childhood
  • track: childhood_ch_1-3
  • artist: tolstoy_l

    • Other notes:

  • PLEASE read recording notes before recording.

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Psmith & Notes from Underground

Posted on September 13, 2005 by | Posted in upcoming titles | Comments: 19 Comments on Psmith & Notes from Underground

The next choices for LibriVox are:

1. Notes from the Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Find the gutenberg e-text here.

and,

2. Psmith in the City, by P.G. Wodehouse.
Find the gutenberg e-text here.

The objective is to have the chapters recorded ahead of time, and then podcast one at a time in sequence, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (I hope). I hope, soon also, to get some technical help to make this a more reasonable process.

UPDATE
Official LibriVox Chapter Assignments have been made. I’ll be offering a few other options soon too for other volunteers. This project may soon baloon out of control!

Psmith in the City

by P.G. Wodehouse

ch 1-3: kristen
ch 4-6: podchef
ch 7-9: kara
ch 10-12: tis
ch 13-15: aaron
ch 16-18: luke
ch 19-21: eileen
ch 22-27: bruce
ch 28-30: miette

NOTES:

  • save files: psmithinthecity_1-3_wodehouse

    • ID3 tags:

  • album: psmith_in_the_city
  • track: ch_1-3
  • artist: wodehouse_pg

    • Other notes:

  • the P is silent, and it’s pronounced “woodhouse.”
  • PLEASE read recording notes before recording.

Notes from the Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Part One
ch 1-3: greg
ch 4-6: randy
ch 7-9: aaron
ch 10-11: jeff
Part Two
ch 1-3 + poem: podchef
ch 4-7: gordon
ch 8-10: amelia

NOTES:

  • save files: notes_p1_1-3_dostoyevsky

    • ID3 tags:

  • album: notes_from_the_underground
  • track: p1_ch_1-3
  • artist: dostoyevsky_f

    • Other notes:

  • PLEASE read recording notes before recording.

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