Gutenberg Canada

Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » July 3rd, 2007, 10:26 am

Gutenberg Canada started two days ago! Under Canadian law books enter the public domain fifty years after the author's death. Therefore they have quite a lot of nice books that are unavailable in the US (and even Australia).

Here is the link:

http://www.gutenberg.ca/
http://www.gutenberg.ca/blogs/070701launch.html

Perhaps when Librivox gets large enough we ought to make a Librivox Canada. . .then we can record such works as A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh stories.

kayray · Post by **kayray** » July 3rd, 2007, 10:31 am

Oh my god. Josephine Tey!!!

*moves to Canada*

Post by **hugh** » July 3rd, 2007, 10:34 am

bloody communists.

Starlite · Post by **Starlite** » July 3rd, 2007, 10:38 am

Post by **hugh** » July 3rd, 2007, 10:44 am

i just sent them an email:

hi just a quick hello from http://librivox.org ... public domain audio books.

we opted to stick with US public domain books (for a variety of mostly-legal reasons), but eventually (when we run out of those!) we may expand our empire to more friendly copyright shores, or rather go back home again (i'm in montreal).

we do have a number of canadian works in our catalog, would you be interested in:
a) linking to them?
or,
b) hosting them? we don;t need a host (archive.org and ibiblio.org host us) but gutenberg.org has started adding our books to their catalog, on their own servers, and you might be interested in doing the same?

anyway, if you wish to discuss in any more detail, drop me a line.

Starlite · Post by **Starlite** » July 3rd, 2007, 11:29 am

Montgomery, L. M. (1874-1942)

Emily of New Moon (1923)
Emily Climbs (1925)
The Blue Castle (1926)
Emily's Quest (1927)
Magic for Marigold (1929)
A Tangled Web (1931)
Pat of Silver Bush (1933)
Mistress Pat (1935)
Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)
Jane of Lantern Hill (1937)
Anne of Ingleside (1939)

12makoto · Post by **12makoto** » July 3rd, 2007, 11:48 am

Starlite wrote:
Montgomery, L. M. (1874-1942)

Emily of New Moon (1923)
Emily Climbs (1925)
The Blue Castle (1926)
Emily's Quest (1927)
Magic for Marigold (1929)
A Tangled Web (1931)
Pat of Silver Bush (1933)
Mistress Pat (1935)
Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)
Jane of Lantern Hill (1937)
Anne of Ingleside (1939)

Well... I guess... You could record them yourself and pass them out to your friends up there in Canada if you want ^_-

AmethystA · Post by **AmethystA** » July 3rd, 2007, 1:01 pm

Oh, I'm soooooooooooooooo jealous!!!!

I so want to record--
Jane of Lanern Hill
Anne of Windy Poplars
The Blue Castle

That settles it, I'm with kayray, I'm moving to Canada, too!

Shurtagal · Post by **Shurtagal** » July 3rd, 2007, 1:55 pm

Alas yet another reason to live in Canada.
I am so envious.

Starlite · Post by **Starlite** » July 3rd, 2007, 2:43 pm

Hey we could have a Canadian read-a-thon!! Come for a visit and see how long it takes to record these.

kayray · Post by **kayray** » July 3rd, 2007, 5:29 pm

So... cough... is there a Canadian equivalent to archive.org? Just in case someone, y'know, wanted to record one of these works (not for LibriVox) and host them in Canada? ;-)

Hypothetically.

Not me, of course. I'm still dawdling over my two solos...