Posted by Cori on December 31st, 2008 — Posted in * My Recordings, About LibriVoxing, Non-Fiction
All six volumes of Edward Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire have been recorded, in full, and are now available for free through LibriVox. I’ve made a contribution to each volume, and in Volume 6, I even got to read the first section, all about the Crusades and Richard the Lionheart (bad guy) and Saladin (nicer guy). Listening to the entire lot will set you back 119 hours, 16 minutes and 14 seconds, and will make a lovely set for the various people selling our recordings on eBay.
It’s also the 2,000th book that LibriVox has sent to archive.org. It’s not quite the 2,000th book catalogued, due to a little confusion during the archiving process, which makes it actually 2001 in Librivox numbering, but the more the merrier. It took 26 months to record the first thousand projects, and 14 months to record the second thousand, so reaching the third is likely to happen in 2009. I’d note that the total includes things like the Weekly Poetry, Short Story Collections, classic literature, non-fiction, modern (but out of copyright) science fiction novels and so I really ought to talk about “projects” rather than “books” throughout, but let’s not quibble over definitions. The winter holiday has been flying by and I’m looking forward, tomorrow, to sitting down for a bit and planning my LibriVoxing for the New Year. Sooo many books, sooooo little time.
The start of Volume 6:
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(06:30)
Happy 2009 everyone — may all your ventures be productive and fulfilling!
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Posted by Cori on December 13th, 2008 — Posted in * My Recordings, Fiction, LV Community Podcasts
The second of the December Madness LV community podcasts is out … petit and bijou at 13min 30sec, I didn’t get as much content as I’d hoped for, but it means I can do some New Release promotions and play a few bloopers (including a silly one of my own from Gibbon’s Decline & Fall.) I totted up the time my podcasts fill, and it’s now 7hrs 4min … that’s across 20 releases (I don’t like really long podcasts, I get fidgetty listening to them, let alone inflicting them on the world myself.)
LibriVox Community Podcast #92 (13:30min)
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I’ve also contributed a couple of readings to a lovely collection of kids’ stories: Childhood’s Favorites and Fairy Stories by Various. Some of them are rather old-fashioned in their moralising grimness but the one I recorded was plain randomtastic. (Note: story may contain badgers.) I also recorded the Introduction, not terribly exciting.
The Accomplished and Lucky Teakettle (4:16min)
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http://librivox.org/childhoods-favorites-and-fairy-stories-by-various/
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Posted by Cori on December 7th, 2008 — Posted in * My Recordings, About LibriVoxing, LV Community Podcasts
I do like a challenge. Like, apparently, a podcast a week for LibriVox between now and Christmas. I have a plan, and the first one went well … so I’m hoping the content rolls in for the others just as easily. And that I manage to find hours in the day for the edits and my own recording. I’ve decided that 15-20 mins is about the ideal length, both for my patience in putting the thing together, and for me as a podcast consumer. I’m not sure I’ve listened to anything podcasty that lasted longer than 30 mins without looking at the clock at least once and wondering how much more there was.
This week’s show is about people’s favourite children’s books, and whether they’d record them for LV. Plus an advert for some current projects and a really nice rendition of a nursery rhyme to round the thing out (not me singing, obviously. I only include that when comedy is required.)
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(16:37min, 7.1MB)
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