COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 092 - jo

[Winnifred]

Here's a recording of "The New Aspect of the Woman Question" by Sarah Grand: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_newaspectofwomanquestion_grand_wa_128kb.mp3 (19:08)
Source: https://archive.org/details/jstor-25103291

This was an essay published in the North American Review and credited with coining the term "New Woman" in the Victorian era.

Cheers,
Winnifred

[Sue Anderson]

Quick question, I am looking at this work: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24676/24676-h/24676-h.htm as a potential second contribution but it is obviously too long to record in one sitting for this collection. Is it allowed to record a few chapters (I was thinking I-IV) for part of this collection and then make separate recordings for future collections?
Or is that more of a thing for solo/group readings?
Thanks!!

Hi, It's perfectly ok to read one chapter, or a group of short chapters from a book for a volume of the SNF, as long as the reading would make sense to the casual listener as a "stand alone listen." It is also ok to read different selections from the same book for different volumes of the SNF, again as long as each selection makes sense in and of itself.

Also, it's ok for a reader to read the same selection more than once, for different parts of LibriVox -- for instance to read a book as a solo and then a chapter from that book as a selection for the SNF. The one caveat is that the two readings must both be originals; LibriVox doesn't allow readings to be copied, or reused in different contexts.

I took a look at the Norway book you mention, and chapters 1-4 look like they would work as a stand-alone.

[Sue Anderson]

Here's a recording of "The New Aspect of the Woman Question" by Sarah Grand: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_newaspectofwomanquestion_grand_wa_128kb.mp3 (19:08)
Source: https://archive.org/details/jstor-25103291

This was an essay published in the North American Review and credited with coining the term "New Woman" in the Victorian era.

Cheers,
Winnifred

Hi Winnifred,

Welcome to the Short Nonfiction Collection! Many thanks for this intriguing essay on the "new woman," circa 1894. I was amazed at how contemporary Sarah Grand sounded! You read very well. PL OK!

[knotyouraveragejo]

Hi Sue,

Here is a contribution from me for this collection:
Stenography and the Typewriter
Chapter XII from Great Inventions and Discoveries by Willis Duff Piercy

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_stenographyandthetypewriter_piercy_jms_128kb.mp3
7:39

Link to text:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37574/37574-h/37574-h.htm#XII

Jo

[Sue Anderson]

Hi Jo, Thanks for this informative selection about shorthand and the typewriter. It is PL OK!

I didn't take shorthand in high school, but in retrospect I wish I had. Woodrow Wilson certainly knew how useful it could be. Here's his "Fourteen Points" address from January 8, 1918 in shorthand: https://www.loc.gov/resource/mcc.057/?sp=1&r=-0.287,0.043,1.76,1.134,0

[knotyouraveragejo]

I took both shorthand and typing in H. S. figuring that I would need to work to pay for college and that would pay better than flipping burgers. Which it did! Also came in handy for taking notes in class and typing papers. Can't even begin to read it anymore.

[czandra]

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_climatechange_sohn_cz_128kb.mp3
6:59

Cz

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/1010/climate-change-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-civilizations/
climate change and the rise and fall of civilizations by Emily Sohn
in NASA Global Climate change, Jan. 20 2014

[Sue Anderson]

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_climatechange_sohn_cz_128kb.mp3
6:59

Cz

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/1010/climate-change-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-civilizations/
climate change and the rise and fall of civilizations by Emily Sohn
in NASA Global Climate change, Jan. 20 2014

Hi czandra,

Thanks for your contribution to vol. 092! I thought it was an interesting article, when I read it, and I'm pleased that you decided to record it for the SNF. Very well read! PL OK!

"When we excavate the remains of past civilizations, we rarely find any evidence that they made any attempts to adapt in the face of a changing climate. I view this inflexibility as the real reason for collapse."
- Dr. Jason Ur, Harvard University

[ekemanuel]

U.S. Constitution, by Founding Fathers (that's how author names appears on the Gutenberg page)

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_usconstitution_foundingfathers_eke.mp3

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5/5-h/5-h.htm

[TriciaG]

I started this with the intention of including it in the 17th anniversary collection, but its tie to the number 17 is a bit weak, so it's going here instead. I was hoping it'd be a little more spicy and salacious, but it is what it is.

Title: Disunion Sentiment in Congress in 1794: A Confidential Memorandum Hitherto Unpublished
Author: John Taylor (of Caroline): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_of_Caroline
Text: https://archive.org/details/disunionsentime00huntgoog
Link: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_disunionsentiment1794_taylor_tg_128kb.mp3
Length: 29:10

The introduction is longer than the memo itself, but I guess it still makes sense to file this as a work by Taylor, rather than Gaillard Hunt. But if desired, his info is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaillard_Hunt

[Sue Anderson]

U.S. Constitution, by Founding Fathers (that's how author names appears on the Gutenberg page)

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_usconstitution_foundingfathers_eke.mp3

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5/5-h/5-h.htm

Hi ekemanuel,

Welcome to the Short Nonfiction Collection! Thank you for for your contribution to vol. 092! I see from your previous posts that you've read just a few selections for LibriVox prior to undertaking to read the U.S. Constitution. Reading a document of this importance and complexity is a big undertaking, particularly because it needs to be read "word perfect" against the text.

I don't find, looking at your previous posts, that you ever did your "one-minute test" to check your recording specifications. Perhaps I'm missing it? But if you haven't done the "one-minute test," yet, I would recommend doing it now. The feedback and help that you receive from the test is invaluable. viewtopic.php?f=21&t=90874

Your recording did not pass the Checker app, which checks specifications. https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Checker Specifically, your volume is too low. There are videos which can help you with this problem. https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Instructional_Videos The volume will need to be brought up to LibriVox specifications, before it can be accepted for vol. 092.

I proof listened the recording. Below, I have listed the edits which need to be done, in addition to correcting the volume. In particular, I noticed that you have several places where you did not cut out repeats.

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Title of work, as read, needs to be corrected to the title in Gutenberg, which is "The Constitution of the United States of America, 1787."


Article 1,Section 6 at 6:52.70

"They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses . . .

You said "of their irrespective Houses."

Article 2, Section 1, at 16:25.5
". . .then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President;

You said "one of them for the President


Article 2, Section 1, at 16:29 and 16:33.5

" . . . then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President

You said "from the highest five on the List the said House shall be in like Manner chuse the President.

Article 2, Section 1, at 18:07, a repeat beginning "and such officer"

Article 2, Section 2 at 19:34.5

a repeat beginning with the word "present" (". . . provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;")


Article 2, Section 3 at 20:23

a repeat beginning "He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union."

(You said "information of the senate of the Union.")


Article 3, Section 2 at 22:08

"to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdisction;--" What I heard was "merry time Jurisdiction"

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Once the edits have been completed, and the volume corrected so that the recording passes Checker, we will be pleased to have your recording be part of the Short Nonfiction Collection.

[Sue Anderson]

I started this with the intention of including it in the 17th anniversary collection, but its tie to the number 17 is a bit weak, so it's going here instead. I was hoping it'd be a little more spicy and salacious, but it is what it is.

Title: Disunion Sentiment in Congress in 1794: A Confidential Memorandum Hitherto Unpublished
Author: John Taylor (of Caroline): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_of_Caroline
Text: https://archive.org/details/disunionsentime00huntgoog
Link: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_disunionsentiment1794_taylor_tg_128kb.mp3
Length: 29:10

The introduction is longer than the memo itself, but I guess it still makes sense to file this as a work by Taylor, rather than Gaillard Hunt. But if desired, his info is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaillard_Hunt

Hi Tricia, Thanks for contributing this reading to Vol. 092!

What I found particularly memorable in this text was the illustration of what can hinge on the reading of a single word!

"There is doubt about the correct reading of a passage of this letter, one version being that Taylor had written to Jefferson, "it was not unwise now to estimate the separate mass of Virginia and North Carolina, with a view to their separate existence," and this version was accepted as correct, until George Tucker, in the Southern Literary Messenger for May, 1838, stated positively than an error of copying had been made in consequence of the fading of the press copy from which Jefferson's letter was taken, and that close inspection showed the real reading to be "it is not usual now," etc."

There's just one person's name that needs changing, top of page 12, at 16:15, text says "Ralph Izard" and you said "Joseph Izard."

There's one other tiny misread, which I frankly don't think changes the meaning of the text, but you can change or leave be as you please.
In the manuscript, at 23:04, text says "K. was throughout the chief spokesman, tho' E. occasionally joined him..." You said "K.was thought the chief spokesman . . ."

[TriciaG]

Thanks! Since I was in there, I made both changes.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_disunionsentiment1794_taylor_tg_128kb.mp3

Same run time.

[Sue Anderson]

Thanks, Tricia! PL OK!

[Winnifred]

Here's my second contribution, read from https://www.gutenberg.org/files/70/70-h/70-h.htm#chap14

“The Bee,” from WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS by Mark Twain

Uploaded to:https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_thebee_twain_wa_128kb.mp3 (8:32)

Much less serious than these other contributions, but still welcome, I hope.

Cheers,