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by prosfilaes
March 14th, 2024, 4:05 pm
Forum: Readers Wanted: Dramatic Works
Topic: Play Suggestions
Replies: 898
Views: 154203

Re: Play Suggestions

This is one of my favorite works, and I think there's a good argument for being one of the more popular English works Librivox hasn't got to yet. It's got all the wit and humor, combined with cutting social satire of George Bernard Shaw's better works. It's in modern English, and it's also copyright...
by prosfilaes
March 14th, 2024, 3:00 pm
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: Androcles and the Lion, by George Bernard Shaw
Replies: 1
Views: 99

Androcles and the Lion, by George Bernard Shaw

This is one of my favorite works, and I think there's a good argument for being one of the more popular English works Librivox hasn't got to yet. It's got all the wit and humor, combined with cutting social satire of George Bernard Shaw's better works. It is a play, which makes it more challenging, ...
by prosfilaes
March 7th, 2023, 4:36 pm
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: Las aventuras de Pinoquio : historia de un titere
Replies: 0
Views: 297

Las aventuras de Pinoquio : historia de un titere

Moving from "Some Books that Aren't in the Public Domain (and why)", as that wasn't appropriate, by request, I copied Las aventuras de Pinoquio : historia de un titere / C. Collodi, traducida directamente del italiano para "La Tribuna" y editada por Antonio José Restrepo ; ilustr...
by prosfilaes
March 7th, 2023, 6:00 am
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: Some Books that Aren't in the Public Domain (and why)
Replies: 296
Views: 275479

Re: Some Books that Aren't in the Public Domain (and why)

Is it possible for someone in USA to download this book in order to record it? https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044082942558 . I know it is public domain but i cant donwload it or acces to it from Argentina. Thanks a lot. Victor I can download it and upload it to the Internet Archive th...
by prosfilaes
January 17th, 2023, 7:22 pm
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: Some Books that Aren't in the Public Domain (and why)
Replies: 296
Views: 275479

Re: Some Books that Aren't in the Public Domain (and why)

I'm speculating there are similar concerns with works that lack an ISBN, where laws and treaties that handle regular ISBN'd books are relatively better understood. I don't think the ISBN is used by LV in identifying a work, its copyright owner, or its copyright date, but I could be wrong. There cou...
by prosfilaes
January 2nd, 2023, 4:38 pm
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: Some books entering the public domain in the USA in 2023
Replies: 79
Views: 10521

Re: Some books entering the public domain in the USA in 2023

Thanks for responding. So it appears no British book of any standing (whatever that means :) ) will ever be read by a Brit, first, on Librivox. For one example, Americans will have the first chance at the Hobbit (in 2033), then all of Tolkien's works will be PD in the UK in 2044, then the Lord of t...
by prosfilaes
September 29th, 2022, 5:27 pm
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: [COMPLETE] The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs - tg
Replies: 76
Views: 2114

Re: [PD IN 2023] - The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Given https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/cinfo/amazstorann, I'd say this should be PD now. Per Librivox rules, someone would have to clear it through PG, of course.
by prosfilaes
April 14th, 2022, 6:38 pm
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: Some Books that Aren't in the Public Domain (and why)
Replies: 296
Views: 275479

Re: Re:

No, nothing that Steinbeck wrote will enter the public domain until 2023 at the earliest, and most quite a long time after that. Why the long wait? The US is 95 years from publication, at least for works first published before 1978. Steinbeck's first novel was 1929, which will leave copyright on 1/...
by prosfilaes
August 16th, 2021, 4:36 am
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: Some Books that Aren't in the Public Domain (and why)
Replies: 296
Views: 275479

Re: Some Books that Aren't in the Public Domain (and why)

HathiTrust says 1929, and hopefully that copy will be available in 2025, when it goes PD.
by prosfilaes
July 17th, 2021, 11:15 pm
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: [Complete]The LibriVox Sixteenth Anniversary Collection - lt
Replies: 199
Views: 11209

Re: [GROUP]The LibriVox Sixteenth Anniversary Collection - lt

Sixteen Months, by Carl Sandburg. I used the Google Books link, https://books.google.com/books?id=K1FbAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA58 , but I think it's the same text as the link given above. https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/16th_sixteen_months_sandburg_des_128kb.mp3 1:03 runtime. Google text links are unr...
by prosfilaes
July 16th, 2021, 8:17 pm
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: [Complete]The LibriVox Sixteenth Anniversary Collection - lt
Replies: 199
Views: 11209

Re: [GROUP]The LibriVox Sixteenth Anniversary Collection - lt

Sixteen Months, by Carl Sandburg. I used the Google Books link, https://books.google.com/books?id=K1FbAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA58 , but I think it's the same text as the link given above.

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/16th_sixteen_months_sandburg_des_128kb.mp3 1:03 runtime.
by prosfilaes
April 16th, 2021, 7:15 pm
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: Some Books that Aren't in the Public Domain (and why)
Replies: 296
Views: 275479

Re: Some Books that Aren't in the Public Domain (and why)

The Australian Gutenberg can be problematic; https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001373875 is a HathiTrust scan. It should be out of copyright around the world, as George Bernard Shaw died in 1950.
by prosfilaes
March 29th, 2021, 12:33 pm
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: List of Unrecorded Horror, Ghost Stories and Weird Tales: Individual Stories and Poetry
Replies: 122
Views: 57059

Re: List of Unrecorded Horror, Ghost Stories and Weird Tales

I'd offer "Beyond the Door" by J. Paul Suter (1884–1970). Unfortunately, the only transcription I know of is on Wikisource, but I can offer scans of the original at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV01n02192304 . I'd note that Weird Tales from 1923 through 1925 are now PD...
by prosfilaes
December 28th, 2020, 12:43 am
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: Some Books that Aren't in the Public Domain (and why)
Replies: 296
Views: 275479

Re: Some Books that Aren't in the Public Domain (and why)

"Goodnight Mister Tom is a children's novel by English author Michelle Magorian, published [...] in 1981." 1981 + 92 -> public domain it the US not before 2076. And with Ms. Magorian still happily alive, anybody outside the US will likely have to wait much longer until it is public domain...