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Thanks, Hugh -- fixed it.

Kara

Oh boy. Poetry. This is sightly terrifying, but I guess I'll volunteer for book 4. I know my dad liked Whitman -- he'd be proud of me for attempting this one.

kara

all audio files can be found on our catalog page: http://librivox.org/five-children-and-it-by-e-nesbit/ Five Children and It, by E. Nesbit Magical adventures with a sand-fairy! Chapters are fairly long, so we'll do them as individual files. How do we pronounce "Psammead", any ideas? I've ...

I suggest podcasting the bowdlerized version, since it is likely to end up in a child's ears. I'd rather my son hear the "clean" version for now -- not because the word is a bad influence or something, but because it's startling and uncomfortable for kids to hear what they know as a "...

Trying not to spread myself too thin... but I can't pass this up. Chapters 5-6 for me!

Kara

all audio files can be found here: http://librivox.org/the-road-to-oz-by-l-frank-baum/ Target completion date = Dec 1 2005 update -- finished October 15 2005!! Never realized how noisy my house is! Five people, three pianos, four guitars, one electric bass, one dog -- all, seemingly, making some ki...

I printed out my Psmith chapters from a .txt file, and am reading Road to Oz straight from an actual (gasp) book. I like to be able to mark with pencil or stickynote where I left off at the last recording session. I considered reading off my pda (no page-turn noises) but neither text was formatted w...

I totally sympathise. I read my chapters of Psmith without having listened to the other readers, and I was a bit worried. But I figured a) hey I'm a volunteer -- I'll just do my best and if I really really suck, someone awesome can re-record my chapters and b) I'll bet every single one of us is at l...

My chapters are done! I uploaded them to my webserver and emailed you a link, Hugh. I had an odd email glitch so I'm not sure the letter was actually sent -- let me know :)

Kara

I set my iBook on the coffee table and sit on the floor so I can position my mouth as near the built-in pinhole mic as possible. There's some noise and it certainly doesn't sound like a professional recording, but it's tolerable. I just ordered a "MacMice MicFlex USB Microphone" ($30-ish) ...