Edgar Rice Burroughs LibriVox suggestions

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DaveS
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Post by DaveS »

Several Edgar Rice Burroughs books have come into the public domain recently, or will soon - and have no LibriVox audiobook.

These Edgar Rice Burroughs books are already in the public domain:

The Bandit of Hell's Bend (1925)
The Eternal Lover (1925) aka "The Eternal Savage"

This Edgar Rice Burroughs book will be in the public domain on January, 1, 2023 - about 5 months from now:

The War Chief (1927)


I have a pdf of each of these I can supply if someone is willing to do the reading.
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Post by knotyouraveragejo »

All three are available at PG Australia.

The Bandit of Hell's Bend
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500251h.html

The Eternal Lover
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200371h.html

The War Chief (PD for LibriVox Jan 1, 2023)
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200521h.html
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DaveS
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Post by DaveS »

Thanks for the reply! Yes pretty much everything is on PG Australia it seems.

There are multiple versions of ERB stories (magazine vs. book publication), so it might be best to use scans of the actual books from Archive.org, rather than reading aloud a page on PG Australia.

The Bandit of Hell's Bend
https://archive.org/details/banditofhellsben00burr/page/n5/mode/2up

The Eternal Lover
https://archive.org/details/eternalsavage0000burr/page/n5/mode/2up

The War Chief (PD for LibriVox Jan 1, 2023):
https://archive.org/details/warchief0000edga/

As I mentioned, I have the pdfs of these and can provide them if anyone is willing to do the reading.

Thank!
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Post by knotyouraveragejo »

As long as the publication dates of the editions used for the online text are included, the PG Australia texts are OK to use if they are PD in the U.S. (which is currently published prior to 1927). I wouldn't have posted them otherwise. :)

The links you provided for archive.org are only for texts that can be borrowed. Your offer of the pdfs is generous, but we prefer online links that everyone can access wherever possible.
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DaveS
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Post by DaveS »

Problem w/ PG Australia for ERB is that we don't know what they used as the source for their version. Maybe the book text, but we usually can't tell.

There is not always a link to a version that anyone can access anytime they want. I'm sure that is preferred, but that is just not possible in a lot of cases. Here is one of the three on Hathi -

The War Chief:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d00832699a&view=1up&seq=1

For the other two I have the pdf scans which are PD now. If you are interested in doing a reading of one of them, just let me know.
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Post by gweeks »

DaveS wrote: August 9th, 2022, 6:11 am For the other two I have the pdf scans which are PD now. If you are interested in doing a reading of one of them, just let me know.
If they are PD now, you can always post the PDFs to archive.org.

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Post by DaveS »

These two public domain Edgar Rice Burroughs books are now on Archive.org:

The Eternal Savage (1925):

https://archive.org/details/the-eternal-savage-1925-ace-f-234/mode/2up


The Bandit of Hell's Bend (1925):

https://archive.org/details/the-bandit-of-hells-bend

Please speak up if you want to do a reading.

Thanks!
DaveS
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Post by DaveS »

"The War Chief" is another Edgar Rice Burroughs book that will enter into the public domain in a couple months on January 1, 2023.

There are already at least two copies on Archive.org, but currently you have to check it out, like at a library to read it:

https://archive.org/details/warchief0000edga

https://archive.org/details/warchief00edga

On January 1, 2023 it will be PD, so it should be able to be a Librivox recording after then.
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Post by flavo5000 »

I actually just recorded The Moon Men, the sequel to The Moon Maid, for Librivox. I was pretty surprised to find that it hadn't been done before. The third book in the series, The Red Hawk, also remained unrecorded.
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Post by gweeks »

flavo5000 wrote: November 10th, 2022, 3:31 pm I actually just recorded The Moon Men, the sequel to The Moon Maid, for Librivox. I was pretty surprised to find that it hadn't been done before. The third book in the series, The Red Hawk, also remained unrecorded.
Fadedpage has a volume that includes all three books.

https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20210715

I just poked Al to ask him to get it posted to PG-US.

Greg
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Post by gweeks »

DaveS wrote: August 12th, 2022, 4:30 pm These two public domain Edgar Rice Burroughs books are now on Archive.org:

The Eternal Savage (1925):

https://archive.org/details/the-eternal-savage-1925-ace-f-234/mode/2up
The Eternal Savage and the Eternal Lover are the same book. I don't want both recorded by different people while thinking they are different. Now, if you want to have both versions recorded, that's different.

Greg
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Post by flavo5000 »

gweeks wrote: November 10th, 2022, 4:04 pm
DaveS wrote: August 12th, 2022, 4:30 pm These two public domain Edgar Rice Burroughs books are now on Archive.org:

The Eternal Savage (1925):

https://archive.org/details/the-eternal-savage-1925-ace-f-234/mode/2up
The Eternal Savage and the Eternal Lover are the same book. I don't want both recorded by different people while thinking they are different. Now, if you want to have both versions recorded, that's different.

Greg
To make matters even more confusing, The Eternal Lover/Eternal Savage is actually comprised of two novellas, "The Eternal Lover" and "Sweetheart Primeval", so technically you could actually record just the first novella as "The Eternal Lover" or the full book as "The Eternal Lover"... Sometimes I have to wonder what goes on in the minds of book publishers....
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Post by flavo5000 »

Well, I'll be... I was just poking around to see if any other Burroughs was unrecorded and found this:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030193/1915-11-15/ed-1/?sp=15&r=-0.634,-0.063,2.267,1.3,0

His serial novel The Man-Eater, serialized in six issues of the New York Evening World newspaper. It looks like all six issues of the paper that includes this serial is on this site too! It's not super easy to read, but it's certainly doable.
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Post by DaveS »

The Man-Eater, serialized in six issues of the New York Evening World newspaper, is indeed in the public domain.

This one was read by Joe Denoia:

https://librivox.org/the-man-eater-by-edgar-rice-burroughs/

There are multiple versions of several ERB books on Librivox, so if someone else wants to give this one a shot, that would be good!

The books of it that were finally published in the 1950s-1970's contain some errors, mostly typographical I think. I am thinking it would be best to have the distributed proofreaders group do a good text conversion of the original newspaper page scans that are online so a corrected version the actual book can be on PG too.
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Post by annise »

Be better to read one of the thousands of PD books we don't have unless it happens to be their absolute favourite book maybe ?

Anne
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