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Hokuspokus
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Post by Hokuspokus »

Welcome to the monthly statistics!

In May 2009 LibriVox completed 66 books.
In June 2009 we have completed 87 projects and there are still some days to come.

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Total number of projects: 2973
Number of completed projects: 2442*
Number of projects in progress: 531
Number of completed non-English projects : 349
Total number of languages: 29
Number of languages with a completed work: 26
Number of completed solo projects: 1159
Number of readers: 2978 ... who have completed something: 2752
Number of completed chapters: ~ 56.000
Average number of chapters per reader: ~ 20
Total recorded time in all rss-ified works: 47070486 seconds, or 544 days, 19 hours, 8 minutes, and 6 seconds. Total of 48511 sections.

* We are very close to 2500 completed projects! Time to prepare the party!

Fresh stats will be delivered at the end of next month.
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Post by Starlite »

:D :D
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable
people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress,
therefore, depends on unreasonable people." George Bernard Shaw
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Post by neerajanagarajan »

THAT'S RAD!!! :9:
*seriously thinking on how to go about planning for the party* :D

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Post by Rogerstaxi »

48511 sections complete?
Taking an average of 20 seconds,
that's 970220 secs or 11 days of 'the disclaimer'.

Promise I'm not starting the old argument.
Just an observation from an anorak.

Roger
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Post by Cori »

Rogerstaxi wrote:that's 970220 secs or 11 days of 'the disclaimer'.
Or under 6 mins per contributor to the project. :D
There's honestly no such thing as a stupid question -- but I'm afraid I can't rule out giving a stupid answer : : To Posterity and Beyond!
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Post by RuthieG »

Nah... not an average of 20 seconds. Many poetry recordings have only "This recording is in the public domain" and newer solo recordings have "This Librivox recording is in the public domain" for all but the first chapter. A mere few seconds.

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Post by Lucy_k_p »

544 days, 19 hours, 8 minutes, and 6 seconds
That's only a few days off 1 and a half years.

When did we hit one year?

And when do people think we'll hit 2?
So little space, so much to say.
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Post by RuthieG »

Lucy_k_p wrote:When did we hit one year?
Friday October 10th 2008

By Wednesday December 31st, we were at 422 days as we released our 2000th recording.
And when do people think we'll hit 2?
Tuesday December 31st, 2009? :lol: Go for it, guys!

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Post by Rogerstaxi »

Nah... not an average of 20 seconds. Many poetry recordings have only "This recording is in the public domain" and newer solo recordings have "This Librivox recording is in the public domain" for all but the first chapter. A mere few seconds.
Apologies for not checking this out better.
Didn't mean it as a criticism by the way, fully accept the need for the disclaimer.
Just saw it as an interesting stat, if likely to stir up a much stirred hornets nest.

Another personal stat.
All I have listened to so far burned onto over 1400 cds.
Wonder how many it would take for the whole catalogue.
Must invest in that ipod soon.

Roger
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Post by RuthieG »

Rogerstaxi wrote: Another personal stat.
All I have listened to so far burned onto over 1400 cds.
Wonder how many it would take for the whole catalogue.
Must invest in that ipod soon.
Good lord! :shock:

It doesn't have to be an ipod. My little MP3 player only cost me 15 quid from play.com.

I hope you tell your passengers about Librivox. ;)

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Post by Rogerstaxi »

I hope you tell your passengers about Librivox.
I do indeed Ruth.
Always have the current book in the cd player and often turn it on to give people a sample.
Usually get very positive feedback.
I know a couple of passengers regularly use LV now.
Once listened to, most discs go to an old folks home but many have gone to passengers.

Roger
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Post by RuthieG »

Rogerstaxi wrote:
I hope you tell your passengers about Librivox.
I do indeed Ruth.
Always have the current book in the cd player and often turn it on to give people a sample.
Usually get very positive feedback.
I know a couple of passengers regularly use LV now.
Once listened to, most discs go to an old folks home but many have gone to passengers.

Roger
That is brilliant! :clap:
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Post by Hokuspokus »

Important update:

Number of completed projects: 2499
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Post by neerajanagarajan »

WOoHOo! I wonder which one that lucky 2500th project is going to be! =))
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Post by chocoholic »

We're there!

Number of completed projects 2500

And the honor goes to...

Triplanetary by E.E. "Doc" Smith, read by Kaffen
PL'd by anna, MC'd by aradlaw

Congratulations to Kaffen et al for #2500, and to everyone who contributed to #1-2499 (without whom there would be no 2500)!

So... we hit #2000 around Dec. 31 of last year. At this rate we should be on the lookout for #3000 next February. :)
Laurie Anne
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