secret agent - chapter 1, by joseph conrad
August 9, 2005All right, we are ready to go. The weblog will be twiddled and tweaked over the next little while, but let’s get the ball rolling.
The innaugural LibriVox project book will be Joseph Conrad’s, The Secret Agent. We will use the e-text from the Gutenberg project, found here.
If you would like to record a chapter, please comment below to “reserve” the chapter, and also send me an email at librivox(at]yahoo[dot]ca . There are 13 chapters to read.
If you plan to do a reading, please read this first. Note, the text, and these recordings will be Public Domain.
The podchef has signed up and (sort of) volunteered for chapter 2! If you know any podcasters please let them know about this project - could be a great project for all the community.
The audio clip for chapter 1 of the Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, read by me, can be found here: Secret Agent - ch 1 - J. Conrad.
neal, the podchef, has volunteered himself for CHAPTER 2.
Comment by Administrator — August 10, 2005 @ 2:07 pm
good shit–I’ll talk to you about reading a chapter if you don’t mind a mumbler!
also: maybe I’m not techie enough but can I subscribe to this podcast? what’s the address?
Comment by Skinner — August 10, 2005 @ 3:28 pm
OK. Skinner gets chapter 3.
Comment by Administrator — August 10, 2005 @ 3:37 pm
What a great idea. I’m game!
Comment by fling93 — August 10, 2005 @ 6:47 pm
fling gets chapter 4.
Comment by Administrator — August 10, 2005 @ 6:49 pm
LibriVox (aka Podcast Gutenberg)
Hugh has a new project that I’d like to draw attention to: LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting? LibriVox is an open sourc…
Trackback by fling93 loves fishies — August 10, 2005 @ 8:31 pm
What license will these files be released under, if any at all? Does that depend on the reader?
Comment by Branko Collin — August 10, 2005 @ 10:23 pm
Ah, I see, it is at the bottom of http://librivox.blogsome.com/about-recording/.
Comment by Branko Collin — August 10, 2005 @ 10:30 pm
Ah, Public Domain, according to the recording readme. Sign me up for a chapter.
Comment by Branko Collin — August 10, 2005 @ 10:41 pm
Public domain out loud
Public domain books + volunteer readers + podcast = Librivox. Starting this week, Librivox tries to bring people together who will each record a chapter of a well-known book, which will then be distributed over the internet. Or, in their words: “…
Trackback by TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — August 10, 2005 @ 10:50 pm
branko = chapter 5. sold.
Comment by Administrator — August 10, 2005 @ 11:08 pm
Yup, I’m in. Chapter 6 please.
Comment by Greg — August 11, 2005 @ 3:58 am
Just the thing to get me recording again. I’ll take Chapter VII then please - if you don’t mind an English accent.
Comment by Lloyd Davis — August 11, 2005 @ 9:38 am
I’d love to give it a shot. My only reservation is that the Gutenberg texts often contain misspellings or typos (I’ve been reading from a Gutenberg text in my regular podcast). May I assume that if there’s an obvious error in the text we may correct it ourselves in the reading? I’ll be sure to annotate any changes if any need to be made.
Comment by The Literate Loser — August 11, 2005 @ 9:47 am
ps: your Gutenberg link is misspelled in the sidebar.
Comment by The Literate Loser — August 11, 2005 @ 9:59 am
Lovely! Lovely! Sign me up for the next available chapter by all means. Will begin work as soon as you say which number is available.
And thanks for the link-love and great review (inspiration?!?!? - damn)!
Comment by Jan — August 11, 2005 @ 11:39 pm
As a Gutenberg volunteer I would like to urge everybody who encounters errors in our texts to not whine about them, but rather report them. You can find information in our FAQ on how to report errors, and on our contacts page where to report them.
Comment by Branko Collin — August 27, 2005 @ 11:41 pm
party poker
Comment by party poker — November 4, 2005 @ 9:28 am