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by PaulW
March 6th, 2007, 12:27 pm
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: More recent Sci fi
Replies: 158
Views: 56991

Gird your loins. ... Upon my return on the 19th, I plan to post Plague Ship in solo's, to be be completed March 23. The following week I plan to start Oomphel in the Sky and Omnilingual, to complete on March 31. ... Any aspiring proof listeners should be on the lookout. :clap: I'll happily voluntee...
by PaulW
February 27th, 2007, 11:05 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Modern books that you wish we could record.
Replies: 472
Views: 189871

Hoo, boy, try to keep it short. :hmm: Anything by Andre Norton (I know some of her stuff is PD), Robert A. Heinlein, David Weber, Anne McCaffrey (especially her Dragonriders of Pern and Crystal Singer series), Tolkein's LoTR, "Doc" Smith, H. Beam Piper, of course (yes, I know some of his s...
by PaulW
February 27th, 2007, 10:23 am
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: More recent Sci fi
Replies: 158
Views: 56991

Re: Proof Listening early volunteer

It's too bad the Library of Congress NLS doesn't have much of anything Andre wrote. If you're eligible for NLS you should be able to get Baen books webscriptions also. They have a fair amount of Andre Norton. It's not nearly as nice as a human read book, but it's at least something. http://www.read...
by PaulW
February 27th, 2007, 1:45 am
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: More recent Sci fi
Replies: 158
Views: 56991

Proof Listening early volunteer

Piper, the Doc, and Andre Norton are my top three favorite authores (when I could read physical books), and I'm eagerly anticipating proof-listening any of their works I can find :D . Manybooks. net has Norton's Plague Ship and The Time Traders , I hope that they're in progress at PG. It's too bad t...
by PaulW
February 24th, 2007, 5:20 am
Forum: New Here? Introduce Yourself!
Topic: New member, long-time listener
Replies: 5
Views: 1524

New member, long-time listener

Hi, folks, I'm a new LibriVox member, but a long-time listener of the LibriVox audiobooks. I hope to be an active proof-listener and/or editor, but since I'm legally blind, trying to read for the project will be kind of difficult. I've done some minor editing of some of the LibirVox books and turned...