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Grothmann
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Hi:

Let us try this one.

Dislikes
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Read by Dale Grothmann
Time 6:03

Gutenberg file
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18734/18734-h/18734-h.htm

LV file
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf060_dislikes_holmes_dg_128kb.mp3

Thanks
Dale
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msfry wrote: October 23rd, 2018, 11:18 am My contribution is an excerpt from Chapter 18, The Purple Land (last 6 paragraphs, beginning "It is not an exclusively British characteristic"
W. H. Hudson
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7132
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf060_purplelandexcerpt_hudson_mtf_128kb.mp3 13:19

This excerpt sums up British citizen Hudson's opinions on the effects of British colonization that he observed while living in Uruguay back in the 19th century. I found it fascinating, yet disturbing.

I stumbled across this while listening to a new book in our catalog, The Purple Land, for which if I hadn't been trying to design the cover, I would have probably missed this gem, and never run across this essay.
Hi Michele, Thanks for this! :) Hudson sounds like he held some strong opinions! "Moreover, it is by no means true that the communities which oftenest startle us with crimes of disorder and violence are morally worse than others. A community in which there are not many crimes cannot be morally healthy."
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Grothmann wrote: October 23rd, 2018, 12:55 pm Hi:

Let us try this one.

Dislikes
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Read by Dale Grothmann
Time 6:03

Gutenberg file
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18734/18734-h/18734-h.htm

LV file
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf060_dislikes_holmes_dg_128kb.mp3

Thanks
Dale
Hi Dale, Thanks for this! :) An interesting list of dislikes. I have to admit, I share this one with O. W. Holmes: "There is one blameless person whom I can not love and have no excuse for hating. It is the innocent fellow-creature, otherwise inoffensive to me, whom I find I have involuntarily joined on turning a corner... I will own that my heart sinks when I find all of a sudden I am in for a corner confluence, and I cease loving my neighbor as myself until I can get away from him."
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That was an interesting lesson about female inventors. Thanks Availle :thumbs:

PLOK

For future use - machinist https://www.google.com/search?q=machinist&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1

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Sue Anderson wrote: October 23rd, 2018, 9:03 am As to your hardly legible scan, I think it would be a fairly easy task to render it legible using IrfanView, a free graphic arts program that you may already have on your computer. I used a snipping tool to select a portion of the scan and then used the "Image-Color Corrections" tool on IrfanView to adjust Gamma correction, Contrast, and Brightness. Then I ran it through "Sharpen" a couple of times, and the scan came out acceptably legible.
Thank you Sue! I am using gimp, but I'm sure something can be done there as well. I will try that... one of "these" days... :D
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Thanks for the excerpt from Chapter 18, The Purple Land nsfry PLOK
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Here is the full quote from Spinoza.
I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice. And that I might investigate the subject-matter of this science with the same freedom of spirit as we generally use in mathematics, I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions; and to this end I have looked upon passions, such as love, hatred, anger, envy, ambition, pity, and the other perturbations of the mind, not in the light of vices of human nature, but as properties, just as pertinent to it, as are heat, cold, storm, thunder, and the like to the nature of the atmosphere, which phenomena, though inconvenient, are yet necessary, and have fixed causes, by means of which we endeavour to understand their nature, and the mind has just as much pleasure in viewing them aright, as in knowing such things as flatter the senses. Spinoza
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Dislikes by Holmes was well read Dale.

one error noted
2:45 I can not get along much better with those drooping, languid people, whose vitality falls short as much as that of the others is in excess. Read of others in excess – forgot to read is

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Post by Grothmann »

Hi, Craig:

Thanks for catching that.

I have made the correction and reloaded the file --

This one over writes the first, I am told.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf060_dislikes_holmes_dg_128kb.mp3

All other information is the same.

Thanks again.
Dale
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Post by Grothmann »

Hi:

And something new --

An Every-Day Experience
By Stephen Leacock
Read by Dale Grothmann
Time 3:09

Gutenberg File
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4064/4064-h/4064-h.htm#link2H_4_0030

LV file
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf060_everydayexperience_leacock_dg_128kb.mp3

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Very nice correction Dale.

PLOK now

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Post by PSAhdi »

Sue Anderson wrote: October 22nd, 2018, 11:12 am
PSAhdi wrote: October 22nd, 2018, 6:32 am Hi,
I am interested in 2 or 3 stories from "Bird Stories" (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25600).
I hope I can start stright away or someone need to assign it to me? Could you please confirm?

Regards,
Pradeep Singh Ahdi
Hi Pradeep, Welcome to the Nonfiction Collection! :) I took a look at the book you mentioned, Bird Stories, Little Gateways to Science. Each chapter of this book is a description of a different bird species, written in the form of a "story" to appeal to younger readers. Since the descriptions are factual, the "stories" are OK to read for the Nonfiction Collection.

You get to choose what you read for the Nonfiction Collection. I would suggest you read and submit just one chapter of the book at a time.

I see that the LibriVox administrator knotyouraveragejo has already suggested you submit a sound check of your recording equipment (the "one minute test") before you begin recording. This is good advice. I hope you would follow her suggestion. You will find the instructions on how to make this equipment test here: http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/1-Minute_Test. You will be reading a short paragraph which begins ”People were pleased to find . . .” Please understand that this reading is NOT an audition (we accept all readers); it’s just to be sure the specifications for your recording are what LibriVox needs. When your 1-minute test is complete, you will want to post it on this Librivox forum: viewforum.php?f=21. A volunteer with recording expertise will listen and help you along. When they say you’re ready to do an actual recording, then you’ll be ready to read a selection from Bird Stories.

We look forward to your contribution to the Nonfiction Collection.

Regards,
Many thanks, Sue
I will definitely record only one chapter at a time and upload it. Unfortunately I did not get the message from "knotyouraveragejo" or I don't know where to look for it. Could you please guide me where to find admin's messages and where can I get the 1min reading text?

Regards,
Pradeep
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PSAhdi wrote: October 24th, 2018, 2:09 am
Many thanks, Sue
I will definitely record only one chapter at a time and upload it. Unfortunately I did not get the message from "knotyouraveragejo" or I don't know where to look for it. Could you please guide me where to find admin's messages and where can I get the 1min reading text?

Regards,
Pradeep
Hi Pradeep, The message from knotyouraveragejo was posted as a welcome to you in the thread "[Nature} Birds and Nature, Volume XII No. 4 Nov 1902" where she is acting as book coordinator [BC], and you have signed up to read two selections. Since her post contains a lot of useful information, I'm going to copy it here for you to read now:
knotyouraveragejo wrote: September 30th, 2018, 4:20 pm Hi Pradeep,

 I've signed you up for sections 11 & 22.

As these will be your first recordings for Librivox, please have a look at the NewbieGuideToRecording and also read carefully through all the notes in the first post of this thread if you haven't already done so.

We also highly recommend that you upload a short test recording to the Listeners Wanted to get an OK that all the technical requirements are good before recording a full chapter. Instructions are here:

http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/1-Minute_Test

Meanwhile I've added you to the database. You can see this on your catalog page at http://librivox.org/reader/12808

If you click on the link for Reader Section Details below your username you will find a summary table showing the status of all the sections that you have signed up to read in open projects.  Click on any of the thread titles in this list to navigate to the thread on the forum.


Thanks and welcome to Librivox. :)
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It is always a good idea with LibriVox to "follow" the threads you are interested in. That way you're sure to get any messages from the book coordinator [BC] and proof reader of the thread. Here is how to begin "following" a topic: If you look at the top of the page you are reading now, just to the right of the red button named "Post Reply" you will see a little "tool" [which looks like a wrench]. Pull down on the menu under this wrench tool and put a check mark next to "Subscribe the Topic." That way you will get an e-mail message each time someone posts to that topic.

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Post by Sue Anderson »

Grothmann wrote: October 23rd, 2018, 7:21 pm Hi, Craig:

I have made the correction and reloaded the file --

This one over writes the first, I am told.

Dale
Yes it does over write the first--presuming both file names are identical. It is very important to keep the file name the same on a re-upload. If there is any difference at all in the file names, the corrected file won't over write the the first one, and the first one will end up in the catalog --- unless the admin who is doing the cataloging (in this case knotyouraveragejo) questions the BC (in this case me) about the divergent file names. As you said before, quite rightly, excellence lies in the details! :)
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Grothmann wrote: October 23rd, 2018, 7:30 pm Hi:

And something new --

An Every-Day Experience
By Stephen Leacock
Read by Dale Grothmann
Time 3:09

Gutenberg File
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4064/4064-h/4064-h.htm#link2H_4_0030

LV file
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf060_everydayexperience_leacock_dg_128kb.mp3

Thanks
Dale
Hi Dale, Thanks for this! :) I liked the title of Leacock's book, "Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy." The humorous intent of the essay I sensed, but not knowing the first thing about bridge, I need your elucidation to understand the ending.
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Post by Grothmann »

Hi Sue:

I believe he is saying "Throw your cards at the other person." Not being a bridge player myself (although I once played) this would be my interpretation of the ending.

Dale
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