[COMPLETE]Dr. Doolittle's Post Office - philc

Post by **ColleenMc** » January 19th, 2020, 11:29 am

Section 3 - everything is good except volume too high -- Checker shows as 93.7.

Sections 0, 1 and 2 are now PL OK!

Colleen

Post by **philchenevert** » January 19th, 2020, 12:13 pm

ColleenMc wrote: ↑January 19th, 2020, 11:29 am Section 3 - everything is good except volume too high -- Checker shows as 93.7.

Sections 0, 1 and 2 are now PL OK!

Colleen

Yes you are absolutely correct, the volume is to high. But please ignore the high volume. I will fix all of them in validation but leave 'em alone for the time being. I'm working on actually recording at a lower volume but these earlier sections were too punched up due to an erratic interface. The interface has been properly chastised and is behaving better. I think.

Post by **philchenevert** » January 19th, 2020, 12:14 pm

I do not see the notes for Section 4.

Post by **ColleenMc** » January 19th, 2020, 12:19 pm

That's because I changed it before I posted here, and then went and did section 5 as well.

Notes for both: all fine except volume high again. 93.3 and 93.4 respectively.

Colleen

Post by **ColleenMc** » January 19th, 2020, 12:37 pm

Section 6 -- last one for right now -- all okay but Checker is not happy with volume again. You won't believe it, this time it says too low! Checker reads it as 85.2...

Colleen

Post by **philchenevert** » January 19th, 2020, 1:37 pm

ColleenMc wrote: ↑January 19th, 2020, 12:19 pm That's because I changed it before I posted here, and then went and did section 5 as well.

Notes for both: all fine except volume high again. 93.3 and 93.4 respectively.

Colleen

Thank you Colleen (what a wonderful name!) I will reduce the volume in validation.

Post by **philchenevert** » January 19th, 2020, 1:58 pm

ColleenMc wrote: ↑January 19th, 2020, 12:37 pm Section 6 -- last one for right now -- all okay but Checker is not happy with volume again. You won't believe it, this time it says too low! Checker reads it as 85.2...

Colleen

Oh I believe it! I have increased sect ion 6 by 1.5 and uploaded again. (later chapters will be more consistently in the correct range. At least I hope)

Post by **philchenevert** » January 22nd, 2020, 4:40 pm

Sections 3,4 and 5 have been fixed and are ready for spot check.

Post by **philchenevert** » January 24th, 2020, 9:16 pm

Section 21 is ready for PL.

Post by **ColleenMc** » January 25th, 2020, 5:41 pm

Sections 3,4,5,6 all now PL OK!

I'm turning in early tonight, ipad in hand, so I'm gonna knock out a few more sections of PL-ing before I sleep!

Also, thought you might like to see the column where I talked about Lofting and Dolittle:

http://file770.com/wandering-through-the-public-domain-26/

Colleen

Post by **philchenevert** » January 25th, 2020, 6:07 pm

Colleen, I did not know you knew so much about public domain things. And y our writing is great, it flows so smoothly. I am struggling to write stories about word entomologies for some classes I will be giving soon. It is hard to actually put the sentences down in the right order so they flow. Not one of my skills at all but I am learning!

and the online magazine is excellent too; are you a regular contributor?

Post by **ColleenMc** » January 25th, 2020, 9:59 pm

I was a pretty regular commentator in their very vocal comments, and then as I got more into Librivox and started digging deeper and deeper into Gutenberg and Internet Archive, I kept mentioning little finds in comments, and finally emailed the guy who runs the site and said, hey what if I write a biweekly "column" about this stuff? And he was like, cool, so here I am, about to write my 27th installment a little over a year later...it's a fun little gig. Mostly it comes about by whimsy, often by seeing who of the older golden age/pre-golden age authors show up on the birthday lists and then seeing what they have available over on PG/IA/LV and writing it up. But sometimes there's some seriously fun random serendipity that makes it all a lot of fun.

Thanks for your kind words about my writing!

Colleen

PS As so often happens, when I went and found that link I ended up remembering that I have another installment coming up and decided to do some "quick research" "just for a few minutes" -- several hours later, I'm going to bed a lot later than I intended, without any additional PL-ing accomplished, so I'm sorry about that part!

Post by **philchenevert** » January 26th, 2020, 10:17 am

Fabulous. It's great to follow our imaginations and fancy down any and all paths. Sad for the people who can't do that. Of course, those paths take up a lot of time when we 'should' be doing things like paying bills and cleaning the filters, but what the hey, eh? Your writing is good and I am going to do those three Ron Goulart stories as a solo soon. Thanks for mentioning them.

Post by **ColleenMc** » January 26th, 2020, 10:39 am

No kidding about the paths taking up time when we "should" be doing other stuff. I have a paid writing project I'm trying to finish up for tomorrow (so I can spend some time writing my unpaid public domain column) and right now I'm just itching to get back to Librivox stuff instead....both recording and PL-ing!

I just saw you left a comment on the post over on File 770 -- that was so nice, thank you!

Colleen

Post by **philchenevert** » January 28th, 2020, 9:02 am

OK !! All chapters have been uploaded for your listening pleasure.

Let me know what needs fixing.