Hello from Central Washington

Sethwoodworth · Post by **Sethwoodworth** » January 24th, 2006, 1:59 pm

Hello, I'm a student at Central Washington University (Ellensburg, Wa) and I really love this project and am looking forward to helping out. I'm thinking about reading Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken to begin with, sound about right?

Gesine · Post by **Gesine** » January 24th, 2006, 2:18 pm

Welcome to LibriVox! It is certainly ok to record the Frost, but you may like to know that we have it on our catalogue already: Annie (LibraryLady) recorded it for our first poetry collection: http://librivox.org/short-poetry-collection-001/.

There are other Frost projects in progress, check this thread: http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=698&highlight=frost, and North of Boston has just been completed as a solo project and will be on our catalogue shortly (it's currently in Listeners Wanted).

However, there's no reason why you cannot record the same thing twice! In fact, that's something we like doing for our weekly poetry - a lot of people record the same poem, and thus we have many different versions of it, which is very interesting. Check out Readers Wanted: Short Works & Poetry.

Jump in to any project there or in Readers Wanted: Books, this way you get a good idea of how LibriVox works! Any questions, please ask. :)

vee · Post by **vee** » January 24th, 2006, 2:22 pm

Welcome to LV!

I haven't had a chance to check on the Public Domain status of Robert Frost. I think some of his work may be, but we need to check to make sure. If you want work on something else there are plenty of projects availble, and a lot of short works and poetry. Feel free to jump in there.

Generally we've been working on stuff found on the Project Gutenburg Website (http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/). Everything they have there has been cleared as public domain so we are free to record it.

Let us know if you have any other questions.

Chris

Sethwoodworth · Post by **Sethwoodworth** » January 24th, 2006, 2:24 pm

Gah! I was wondering why no one had done Frost yet. Looking through the poetry collections there are a lot that I would have liked to do. But luckily there are plenty more still.

I think that I might still record Frost, more to test my recording and editing than anything. I didn't see any alternate versions in the collections, are alternate versions posted?

Gesine · Post by **Gesine** » January 24th, 2006, 2:31 pm

I believe there are no alternative versions of The Road Not Taken yet. Please do it, and maybe submit it to our newest Poetry Collection, over in Readers Wanted: Short Works and Poetry?

Gesine · Post by **Gesine** » January 24th, 2006, 2:33 pm

Forgot to mention: check our catalogue for all completed and upcoming recordings. We have several poetry collections already. http://librivox.org/librivox-catalogue/

vee · Post by **vee** » January 24th, 2006, 2:44 pm

Yup you're good! The Road Not Taken published 1915.

Sethwoodworth · Post by **Sethwoodworth** » January 24th, 2006, 3:41 pm

Ok, done. Now where do I upload it? I'm assuming archive.org? There doesn't seem to be any faq's on the subject.

kayray · Post by **kayray** » January 24th, 2006, 5:38 pm

Seth, you'll probably want to submit your poem to our Short Poetry Collection:

http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=887

If you read the first post, you'll find information on how to submit your files. (generally, you'll send your files to a book coordinator, who will then send completed books/anthologies to a cataloger)

Thanks a lot for contributing!

Kara

rurikid · Post by **rurikid** » January 29th, 2006, 10:22 pm

Seth,

Hey, looking forward to doing my part for "Thus Spake.."

Paul

dr. cello · Post by **dr. cello** » January 29th, 2006, 10:59 pm

Seth,

I am here. Also Sprach, indeed.

Mason