LibriVox Forum

Also, Christine said she wouldn't be able to get the preface recorded until next week. My apologies to everyone for not catching this sooner! :( Hey everyone, I'm back from vacay - sorry for the delay! (hey that rhymes!) Anyway, here's the preface & thanks for your patience! 8-) https://librivox.or...

This project is now complete. All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/the-fun-of-getting-thin-by-samuel-g-blythe/ Contratulations on your first solo! MaryAnn Yay!! Thanks so much to everyone, especially you, MaryAnn, for your patient "shepherding" me through the proce...

bhavya wrote: ↑

August 10th, 2018, 7:53 pm

Chapter 3 is PL OK.
Great job!

Thank you!!

One more thing: Please let me know before Tuesday of next week (8/14) whether there's anything else I need to be doing on this project. My husband and I are leaving early the following day for a long train trip so I won't be able to do any edits/recording till we get home towards the end of the mont...

MaryAnnSpiegel wrote: ↑

August 8th, 2018, 3:33 pm

Great. Update made.
Ready to catalog once you get a PL OK on your final section. (Don't forget to post the link in the MW and update the status to "ready to PL")
MaryAnn

OK, sure. Was I supposed to do that for the first two as well? Did you do it for me? If so, thanks again!!

Christine, I can easily change the summary up until I actually catalog the project, you just need to let your BC know what changes you want. I've updated the catalog record (behind the scenes) to reflect your new summary, but without the b/d dates on the Author (since those would be on his LV autho...

Here's Chapter 3 -- https://librivox.org/uploads/maryannspiegel/funofgettingthin_03_blythe_128kb.mp3 22 min 20.989 sec / 20.95 KB and that's it! :clap: Thanks, everyone, for your help! Also, is it too late to revise the summary? I was thinking of changing it, as follows: "In this short, amusing book...

Thanks to Tony Addison ( https://librivox.org/reader/10289?primary_key=10289&search_category=reader&search_page=1&search_form=get_results ) for his wonderfully dry and droll reading of Lyn Venable's "Time Enough at Last" in Short Science Fiction Collection 056 ( https://librivox.org/short-science-fi...

MaryAnnSpiegel wrote: ↑

August 5th, 2018, 3:54 pm

No problem! It's a learning process that we all have been through.

Your MW looks great.

MaryAnn

Thanks, MaryAnn!

OK, sorry, I had never done this before but I think I did it correctly. Please let me know if there's anything else there you think I need to fix/change. Thanks!

MaryAnnSpiegel wrote: ↑

August 4th, 2018, 4:26 pm

Please remember to post links and time to the MW, and to fill in the section titles.
Thanks.
MaryAnn

Sorry, I don't quite understand -- what does this mean exactly?

Here's chapter 2, woo-hoo!

https://librivox.org/uploads/maryannspiegel/funofgettingthin_02_blythe_128kb.mp3 17 min 39.103 sec / 16.55 KB

OK folks, here we go with Chapter 1!

https://librivox.org/uploads/maryannspiegel/funofgettingthin_01_blythe_128kb.mp3 9 min 35.344 sec / 8.99 KB

Also, I just edited the book summary to include this disclaimer: ***NOTE: It should be noted that there is language within this book that was commonplace during the time this book was written that is often considered offensive today.*** This is due to the word "coon" in chapter 2. Hope that's OK to ...

Just wondering, at the beginning of Chapter 1, should I add the publication date & publisher?