http://piratelibrary.com Text and audio from the public domain Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:08:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Water-babies by Charles Kingsley has had, according to the archive.org ticker, 10,148 downloads! Hoorah! Now, admittedly, their counter has good days and bad weeks, and it also counts any file as a download ... so that could be 600 people downloading all 17 files separately, or it ... http://piratelibrary.com/archives/62 ... live women have been known to. http://librivox.org/dead-men-tell-no-tales-by-ernest-william-hornung/ Chapter One is mine, and no, I don't know what happens next, but I look forward to finding out! It's a mystery story, I know that much ... and any story that starts at sea is starting well in my book. [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/dead_men_tell_no_tales_0804_librivox/deadmentellnotales_01_hornung_64kb.mp3] http://piratelibrary.com/archives/54 This week's community podcast is themed from the forum thread for "One book a week in 2008". (I've only read 12 so far -- I think I'm behind?) There was a bit of discussion there about whether listening to a book was the same as reading it. ... http://piratelibrary.com/archives/53 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. IV by Edward Gibbon ... my sections were #17 and #18. It's beginning to blur into a bit of a Gibbony mass, now, so I confess I don't remember what these were all about. But ... http://piratelibrary.com/archives/52 I went absolutely nuts in this week's comunity podcast and talked for at least 3 minutes! And sang (for about 10 seconds in total, fear not.) Plus I also used the 148yr old voice recording that's been doing the rounds this week, and commissioned a great interview -- ... http://piratelibrary.com/archives/51 Now available for your listening pleasure, 9hrs 41min of glorious Milton.  Oh, this HAS been a long time coming.  At the beginning of January, I posted that I'd snapped up the last section -- unfortunately this didn't turn out to be quite true, since another chapter was part-read, but then ... http://piratelibrary.com/archives/50 I updated my Hear Me page and associated spreadsheet today and can proudly announce --  I have reached 50 hours of recorded contributions to the public domain!  50 hours and 16 mins, to be precise, (which I need to be with all that Pi in there.) Think I might start counting ... http://piratelibrary.com/archives/49 My first recording in weeks ... and is it the Gibbon I owe..?  No.  A bit of J.S. Mill..?  Nope.  More Elegaic Sonnets..?  Unfortunately not. It's the first fifty digits of pi, read in a single breath (for one file) and in the World's Most Awful Pirate "Accent" (separate file, and ... http://piratelibrary.com/archives/48 My latest solo work is finished.  I post-processed Mathilda, by Mary Shelley, for Project Gutenberg (that is, smoothed the proofread pages into a single document, both plaintext and HTML) so was very familiar with it (and with Mary's quirky spelling which I tried to keep intact in the final work.)  I ... http://piratelibrary.com/archives/46 I saw this project get started, and was muchly excited ... Yonge was a very popular author in her day, but I've never read any, and ought to remedy that. After hovering politely for a couple of days, I pounced happily on Chapter 1. Now it's all finished, ... http://piratelibrary.com/archives/45