two newbies from Szczecin, Poland

Neska · Post by **Neska** » January 24th, 2006, 12:41 pm

I am very excited about the project after I listened to The Notes from The Underground. My friend is curious if there is a possibility to launch a work in Polish since it's the only language she speaks fluently.
As far as I am concerned I teach English and cherish some hope my command of the language is good enough to read books to people. Of course I can always read in Polish.
Where can I find as list of book in public domain (hopefully according to different countries)?
Greetings to all from Poland.

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » January 24th, 2006, 12:47 pm

Welcome Neska and company! This is an incredible coincidence as are we currently discussing Pan Tadeusz in this thread: http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1056

As for books in the public domain, Project Gutenberg is a good place to begin as they have already investigated the legal end on many books: http://gutenberg.org ... here is the link to books specifically in Polish: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/pl

We're happy to have your voice among us... in English, Polish, or any other languages you wish to share =)

kri · Post by **kri** » January 24th, 2006, 12:49 pm

There's already a discussion about doing Pan Tadeusz in Polish or English: http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1056

Gutenbergis a great place to find public domain texts, although I don't know that they have much of Polish. I believe the cut-off date in the US for public domain is 1923, so as long as it was published before that it's fine. I'm not sure about Polish laws, however.

Welcome to Librivox!! It's always exciting to see new faces, especially from other countries! Perhaps you could try out an English recording in the Short Works section. We do a short poem every week, and everyone's invited to contribute. We're also doing a collection of Aesop's fables, which are about a paragraph/1-2 minutes long each. If your English is comprehensible, I'm sure it will be fine!

kri · Post by **kri** » January 24th, 2006, 12:50 pm

Darn it, right at the same time

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » January 24th, 2006, 12:51 pm

kri wrote:Darn it, right at the same time

Just proves how excited we are! =)

Neska · Post by **Neska** » January 24th, 2006, 12:56 pm

We didn't expect so quick answers. Great to have an opportunity to cooperate.
Thanks for information. We'll try to do our best.

kayray · Post by **kayray** » January 24th, 2006, 3:04 pm

And we LOVE to hear voices from all over the world! Don't worry if you don't think your English is "perfect" -- read for us anyway :)

Welcome to Librivox!

Kara

Gesine · Post by **Gesine** » January 24th, 2006, 3:20 pm

Welcome to LibriVox! Very exciting to have another country on our map of volunteers, and possibly another language to add to our catalogue! But feel free to read in English, too, or any other language with which you feel comfortable (we have projects in German, French and Italian right now). :)