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Inkell
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Fantastic Fables, by Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)
A collection of 245 short funny fables (Summary by Inkell)
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/374

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Genres for the project: Humorous Fiction; Short Stories/Single Author Collections; Satire
Keywords that describe the book: satire, humor, short stories, wit
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"Section # of Fantastic Fables. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Fantastic Fables, by Ambrose Bierce. Section Title."
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Inkell
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Post by Inkell »

This is my first attempt at dividing up my own sections, each should be about 1000-2000ish words covering about 14-17 fables each (they are very short) so hopefully this is acceptable but if interesting MCs have any suggestions I'm obviously open to them. This is a unique kind of book so hopefully should be a fun one
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Post by Rapunzelina »

Dividing up your own sections is definitely acceptable. It just gets tricky with section titles and intros.

What section titles do you suggest for the Magic Window? That might affect how the intro goes for [Section title]; another option is skipping that and going straight to the fable title in line.
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Post by Inkell »

Rapunzelina wrote: ↑February 4th, 2024, 8:14 am Dividing up your own sections is definitely acceptable. It just gets tricky with section titles and intros.

What section titles do you suggest for the Magic Window? That might affect how the intro goes for [Section title]; another option is skipping that and going straight to the fable title in line.
Well the book actually has three sections, the first is by far the longest and doesn't have a title so I was going to just title them "[Fable title] to [Fable title]" similar to what I've seen done before (for example in this cookbook: viewtopic.php?t=98359&hilit=certo or this bird book: viewtopic.php?t=97951&hilit=birds+of+pennsylvania), the second does have a title so I was going to call it "Aesopus Emendatus: Part [number]" and just say which sections to read to in the notes then the last is short enough to be it's own section so I was just going to call it "Old Saws with New Teeth." Does that sound good to you or do you have another suggestions?

And thanks for MCing! :9:
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Post by Rapunzelina »

Yes, I think that will work well! :thumbs: :thumbs:
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Post by Inkell »

Rapunzelina wrote: ↑February 4th, 2024, 9:10 am Yes, I think that will work well! :thumbs: :thumbs:
Great! I'll fill in the MW now and if you have any ideas for improvements you can let me know
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Post by Rapunzelina »

Magic Window looks great! I'll move us to Readers Wanted soon!
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Post by Inkell »

Rapunzelina wrote: ↑February 4th, 2024, 10:01 am Magic Window looks great! I'll move us to Readers Wanted soon!
I'm glad! Hopefully if we wait around here a bit we can attract a DPL
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Post by Winnifred »

This looks like fun! I'd like to DPL, if I may.

Cheers,
Winnifred

Readers Wanted:
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Post by Inkell »

Winnifred wrote: ↑February 4th, 2024, 10:46 am This looks like fun! I'd like to DPL, if I may.

Cheers,
Certainly! Thank you and welcome to the project :thumbs:
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Rapunzelina
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Post by Rapunzelina »

Winnifred has now MW access as DPL :thumbs:
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Post by Inkell »

Rapunzelina wrote: ↑February 4th, 2024, 10:52 am Winnifred has now MW access as DPL :thumbs:
That's great, thank you :thumbs:
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Post by Rapunzelina »

Just moved to Readers Wanted
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ChristineBerry
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Post by ChristineBerry »

Hello, could I please claim Part 2?
Thank you!
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Inkell
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Post by Inkell »

ChristineBerry wrote: ↑February 5th, 2024, 7:25 am Hello, could I please claim Part 2?
Thank you!
You can, thank for your claim and as you are a new reader, welcome to Librivox!

In fact you are so new before I can officially assign it you I will need to know what you would like your catalogue name to be? It can be the same as your username or your real name or whatever you prefer, it's what you'd like to be credited as so I can add you to the system.

I also see you have not done a 1-minute test yet so head on over to here (viewtopic.php?t=90874) for instructions on how to do that first, it's not an audition it's just to make sure your technical specs are right first (wouldn't want your first real recording to go to waste because of a stupid technical issue!) and gives you an idea of what the process is like.

In the meantime I'll reserve it for you, if you have any questions feel free to ask :thumbs:
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