[COMPLETE] Christmas Short Works Collection 2018 -ans

Post by **mightyfelix** » November 13th, 2018, 9:48 am

Ok, everyone, I think I've updated everything that happened while I was gone. (Maria, I will add you in the MW when your section is ready, thanks!)

As far as I can tell, this is ready for Readers Wanted.

Foon · Post by **Foon** » November 13th, 2018, 10:43 am

Hi Devorah,

Here is Mrs Good for Ola:
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/csw18_ola_mrsgood_128kb.mp3

Post by **mightyfelix** » November 14th, 2018, 4:43 pm

Beautiful job, thank you, Foon! Mrs. Good is PL ok.

Anne, since Maria said something about my needing to enter each source in the MW, I poked around to see if I could figure out how, and I think I got it. Could you check for me, and make sure I did it right? Also, as Colleen pointed out, there are two John D. MacDonalds, and both of them are in our catalog. How do I know which one to pick from the drop down list? I picked one arbitrarily, but I don't know how to check to see if it's the right one.

Post by **annise** » November 14th, 2018, 5:28 pm

I'll check - and move us to readers wanted. I was waiting for you to come back check if you knew about the metadata, which is much easier to fill in as you go, and I'll have to do some research about John MacDonald
Back later

Anne

lomond · Post by **lomond** » November 14th, 2018, 8:48 pm

Greetings -

Now that I am (mostly) done with reading about Insect Adventures and spiders running around pouncing on their victims

, can I DPL something a bit more upbeat?

Lomond

lomond · Post by **lomond** » November 14th, 2018, 9:43 pm

Greetings -

Section 2 has just one possible little problem keeping it from being PL OK.

Is it my chronologically progressed ears or does it really sound like the very first word of the reading is "ports" instead of "port"?

Otherwise, a good read.

I have been a fan of George MacDonald's works for some time. You can see his influence in later works by C. S. Lewis. He truly was the Father of the Inklings.

Lomond

Post by **mightyfelix** » November 14th, 2018, 10:28 pm

I hear "port," although it is quite a hard "t." Thanks for the PL. I enjoyed the story, and it was a new one for me.

lomond · Post by **lomond** » November 14th, 2018, 10:32 pm

mightyfelix wrote: ↑November 14th, 2018, 10:28 pm I hear "port," although it is quite a hard "t." Thanks for the PL. I enjoyed the story, and it was a new one for me.

Greetings -

Ah. Then I give full credence to the less chronologically progressed ear and deem the section fully PL OK.

Lomond

benderca · Post by **benderca** » November 15th, 2018, 5:07 am

May I read Henry Good please?

commonsparrow3 · Post by **commonsparrow3** » November 15th, 2018, 12:39 pm

Here's my bit!

Link to your recording, as shown on the Uploader - https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/csw18_simplebilloffare_jackson_mk_128kb.mp3
Link to the text source - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10516/10516-h/10516-h.htm#ch-29
Language in which the story/poem is written - English
Author's/translator's name, birth and death dates - Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
Title of the story/poem - A Simple Bill of Fare for a Christmas Dinner
Duration (runtime) of the file in mm:ss - 07:56

MichaelMaggs · Post by **MichaelMaggs** » November 15th, 2018, 4:04 pm

Have liked this one for a long time. Just noticed after doing it that it was recorded last year as well - sorry!

Eddi's Service
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
csw18_eddis-service_kipling_mnm_128kb.mp3
https://www.bartleby.com/364/283.html
English
Duration 2:05

Post by **mightyfelix** » November 15th, 2018, 4:28 pm

MichaelMaggs wrote: ↑November 15th, 2018, 4:04 pm Have liked this one for a long time. Just noticed after doing it that it was recorded last year as well - sorry!

Eddi's Service
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
csw18_eddis-service_kipling_mnm_128kb.mp3
https://www.bartleby.com/364/283.html
English
Duration 2:05

Thank you, we'll be happy to include it again this year! Make sure, however, that you include the entire link given you by the uploader, not just the file name. It should turn blue if you've done it correctly. The easiest way to copy it from the uploader is to right click the uploader link and then click "Copy URL location" or something to that effect. I was able to find it this time, but it's much easier to have the whole thing the first time around.

https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/csw18_eddis-service_kipling_mnm_128kb.mp3

Post by **mightyfelix** » November 15th, 2018, 4:34 pm

Thanks, everyone. MW should be entirely uploaded.

Anne, did you see that Lomond has volunteered to DPL for us?

MichaelMaggs · Post by **MichaelMaggs** » November 17th, 2018, 2:40 pm

Some non-PC Christmas entertainments of 1734.

Round About Our Coal Fire, chapter I
Anonymous ('Dick Merryman') fl 1734
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Round_about_our_Coal_Fire,_or,_Christmas_Entertainments,_4th_edn,_1734.pdf
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/csw18_roundaboutourcoalfire_anonymous_mnm_128kb.mp3
English
Duration 15:28

Post by **annise** » November 17th, 2018, 3:06 pm

mightyfelix wrote: ↑November 15th, 2018, 4:34 pm Thanks, everyone. MW should be entirely uploaded.

Anne, did you see that Lomond has volunteered to DPL for us?

Yup - was waiting for you to accept. I assume that's you assenting, so I'll add them.

Anne