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by quartertone
Yesterday, 11:23 am
Forum: Readers Wanted: Short Works (Poetry & Prose)
Topic: [GROUP] Short Science Fiction Collection 099-brrot
Replies: 27
Views: 818

Re: [GROUP] Short Science Fiction Collection 099-brrot

The general in this story is probably the least violence-prone military leader I've read in stories from this era. Classified Object - by John Victor Peterson https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73358 https://librivox.org/uploads/brownrottger/ssf099_classifiedobject_peterson_qtn_1298kb.mp3 40:00 Excel...
by quartertone
April 25th, 2024, 9:52 pm
Forum: Readers Wanted: Short Works (Poetry & Prose)
Topic: [GROUP] Short Science Fiction Collection 099-brrot
Replies: 27
Views: 818

Re: [GROUP] Short Science Fiction Collection 099-brrot

The general in this story is probably the least violence-prone military leader I've read in stories from this era.

Classified Object
- by John Victor Peterson
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73358
https://librivox.org/uploads/brownrottger/ssf099_classifiedobject_peterson_qtn_1298kb.mp3
40:00
by quartertone
April 23rd, 2024, 9:12 am
Forum: Readers Wanted: Short Works (Poetry & Prose)
Topic: [SCIENCE] Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891, by Various - thw
Replies: 39
Views: 1320

Re: [SCIENCE] Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891, by Various - thw

No problem. I kind of do my own PL sometimes also. I found a small repeat at the end of section 16, so I uploaded the new version https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/sciamsuppl795march1891_16_various_128kb.mp3 21:16 We should all do some sort of PL on our work, but even with the best of efforts som...
by quartertone
April 21st, 2024, 10:48 pm
Forum: Readers Wanted: Short Works (Poetry & Prose)
Topic: [SCIENCE] Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891, by Various - thw
Replies: 39
Views: 1320

Re: [SCIENCE] Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891, by Various - thw

Thank you! I've updated the Magic Window. Our DPL has been under the weather so a little behind, but should be caught up pretty soon. I did not do a full PL of Section 17 -- just enough to see what ad was all about and how you did with that Rx. Very impressed by how you handled this challenging pas...
by quartertone
April 21st, 2024, 4:09 pm
Forum: Readers Wanted: Short Works (Poetry & Prose)
Topic: [SCIENCE] Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891, by Various - thw
Replies: 39
Views: 1320

Re: [SCIENCE] Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891, by Various - thw

"3s. 6d. per 1,000 cubic feet" should be read "three shillings, 6 six pence." Ah, thanks! I will update this when I get a chance this weekend. Fascinating how monetary (and other])abbreviations come about. Apparently the "d" is a reference to the denarius , the Roman p...
by quartertone
April 19th, 2024, 11:34 am
Forum: Readers Wanted: Short Works (Poetry & Prose)
Topic: [SCIENCE] Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891, by Various - thw
Replies: 39
Views: 1320

Re: [SCIENCE] Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891, by Various - thw

"3s. 6d. per 1,000 cubic feet" should be read "three shillings, 6 six pence." Ah, thanks! I will update this when I get a chance this weekend. Fascinating how monetary (and other])abbreviations come about. Apparently the "d" is a reference to the denarius , the Roman p...
by quartertone
April 19th, 2024, 9:17 am
Forum: Readers Wanted: Short Works (Poetry & Prose)
Topic: [SCIENCE] Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891, by Various - thw
Replies: 39
Views: 1320

Re: [SCIENCE] Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891, by Various - thw

With great (ok, maybe not that great) effort and frustration I have completed the Gaseous Illuminants sections! I need to stop picking sections with such annoyingly unwieldy sentences with multiple levels of dependent clauses and phrases that it twists the mind into a jumble. Section 14 https://libr...
by quartertone
April 16th, 2024, 3:51 pm
Forum: Readers Wanted: Short Works (Poetry & Prose)
Topic: [SCIENCE] Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891, by Various - thw
Replies: 39
Views: 1320

Re: [SCIENCE] Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891, by Various - thw

I'm enjoying these scientific readings. I would like to do the "Gaseous Illuminants" sections (14,15,16) I have questions about how the charts should be read though. I think it would be confusing for the listener to just read the numbers as they appear, so I was thinking for example the &q...
by quartertone
April 15th, 2024, 4:35 pm
Forum: Readers Wanted: Short Works (Poetry & Prose)
Topic: [SCIENCE] Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891, by Various - thw
Replies: 39
Views: 1320

Re: [SCIENCE] Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891, by Various - thw

Section 4 completed. https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/sciamsuppl795march1891_04_various_128kb.mp3 6:52 I verbalized the medical abbreviations in full for the "Rx"; hopefully this is ok. But I was not sure of what "ad 120" meant nor how I should say it. Saying "A.D." ...
by quartertone
April 15th, 2024, 4:34 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Comments on "How to Prevent Hay Fever"
Replies: 0
Views: 117

Comments on "How to Prevent Hay Fever"

Comments on Section 4 of the Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 ; "How to Prevent Hay Fever": My first reaction to reading this section/article was: "Yikes, those are some potentially harmful remedies." And I was strongly tempted to inject into my recording &...
by quartertone
April 11th, 2024, 6:51 pm
Forum: Readers Wanted: Short Works (Poetry & Prose)
Topic: [SCIENCE] Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891, by Various - thw
Replies: 39
Views: 1320

Re: [SCIENCE] Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891, by Various - thw

Hello,

I would like to do these sections please:

section 4 How to Prevent Hay Fever
section 17 Stereoscopic Projections
by quartertone
April 7th, 2024, 9:02 pm
Forum: Readers Wanted: Short Works (Poetry & Prose)
Topic: ~(Group/travel) Greatest wonders of the world, by Esther Singleton - lt
Replies: 138
Views: 4658

Re: ~(Group/travel) Greatest wonders of the world, by Esther Singleton - lt

Here is Section 46 - "Yellowstone" https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/greatestwondersoftheworld_46_singleton_128kb.mp3 25:52 I accidentally messed with my recording input gain halfway through reading this. I think I was able to smooth it out; hopefully the merge point is not too noticeable.
by quartertone
March 23rd, 2024, 9:09 am
Forum: Readers Wanted: Short Works (Poetry & Prose)
Topic: ~(Group/travel) Greatest wonders of the world, by Esther Singleton - lt
Replies: 138
Views: 4658

Re: ~(Group/travel) Greatest wonders of the world, by Esther Singleton - lt

Here is section 19 https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/greatestwondersoftheworld_19_singleton_128kb.mp3 9:20 I hope I didn't mangle the Swedish part. I had learned a bit of Norwegian, but I had no idea that Swedish pronuciation would be so different! The notorious sj-sound was particularly interesti...
by quartertone
March 20th, 2024, 6:05 pm
Forum: Readers Wanted: Short Works (Poetry & Prose)
Topic: ~(Group/travel) Greatest wonders of the world, by Esther Singleton - lt
Replies: 138
Views: 4658

Re: ~(Group/travel) Greatest wonders of the world, by Esther Singleton - lt

Could I have these two sections please?

19 Trollhätta by Hans Christian Andersen

46 The Yellowstone by Rudyard Kipling

thanks!
by quartertone
March 20th, 2024, 5:58 pm
Forum: Readers Found
Topic: [HUMOROUS ESSAYS] The Powder of Sympathy, by Christopher Morley - icequeen
Replies: 212
Views: 6167

Re: ~[GROUP/HUMOROUS ESSAYS] The Powder of Sympathy, by Christopher Morley - icequeen

Here are my completed sections, uploaded, ready for PL https://librivox.org/uploads/icequeen/powderofsympathy_02_morley_128kb.mp3 2-Scapegoats 7:38 https://librivox.org/uploads/icequeen/powderofsympathy_07_morley_128kb.mp3 7-Hail, Kinsprit: 3:56 https://librivox.org/uploads/icequeen/powderofsympathy...