COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 026 - jo

[knotyouraveragejo]

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 026
This project is now complete. All audio files can be found on our catalog page here:

http://librivox.org/short-nonfiction-collection-vol-026/
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short nonfiction works on any topic in English.

Please select and record any short essay or other nonfiction piece in the public domain. Try to stick to works that run less than 60 minutes. You are welcome to contribute as many as you wish, and there is no need to "sign-up" before recording...as long as the work is clearly in the public domain, just start recording. Multiple versions are always welcome, so don't worry whether someone else has recorded your selection already; we're happy to hear your version too.

After 15-20 recordings are submitted, we will prooflisten, catalog and make them available to the public.

Basic Recording Guide: http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Newbie_Guide_to_Recording

1. RECORD

• Be sure to set your recording software to: 44100Hz, 16-bit
• At the BEGINNING Say: "[Title of Work], by [Author Name]" "This is a Librivox recording. All Librivox Recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Librivox.org"
• At the END, say: "End of [Title], by [Author Name]"
• If you wish, you may also say: "Read by...your name."
• Please leave 5 seconds of silence at the end of your recording or 10 seconds if longer than 30 minutes.

2. EDIT and SAVE your file:

• Need noise-cleaning?Listen to your file through headphones. If you can hear distracting background noise, you may want to clean it up a bit. The free beta version 1.3.x of Audacity (Mac/Win) has much improved noise-cleaning. See this LibriVox wiki page for a complete guide. Note: Noisecleaning with other versions of Audacity is not recommended.
  
  
• Save or export your recording to an mp3 file at 128kpbs using the following filename and ID3 tag format:
  
• File Name: (all lower case. Please omit a, the, etc from title): snf026_titleofwork_authorlastname_yourinitials.mp3
  
• ID3 Tags:
  • • Title/Name: [Title]
    • Artist: [Author Name]
    • Album: LibriVox Nonfiction Collection Vol. 026

3. SUBMIT your recording:

Please upload your finished recording using the LibriVox uploader (when your upload is complete, you will receive a link - please copy to post in this thread):
http://upload.librivox.org

If you have trouble reading the image above, please send a private message to any admin
You'll need to select the MC, which for this project is: jo - knotyouraveragejo.
*If this doesn't work, or you have questions, please check our How To Send Your Recording wiki page.

4. POST the following information in this thread:

• • The link you copied from the uploader to your file
  • Source from which you read (i.e. Gutenberg or other etext url. NOTE: If posting a Gutenberg link please provide the link to the download page, e.g. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/# where # is the PG project number for the book.)
  • Length in minutes and size in MB of your file
  • If this is your first Librivox recording, I will also need your name as you would like it to appear on the catalog page and the URL of your homepage if you have one and would like it linked to your name on the catalog page.

Want to see if what you plan to record has been done already?
http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search.php?
Search by keywords in the Catalog Search
http://librivox.org/newcatalog/
But don't let this stop you from recording your own version!

Magic Window:

BC Admin
(PL = Proof-Listening; PLC = Proof-listening Complete; PL OK = ready to catalog)

**Please note that the recordings in this collection will appear in the catalog in alphabetical order by title, although they will be initially entered into the magic window in the order they are submitted.

[rkilmer]

Jo,

I would like to read this short story, but don't know how to determine if it is in PD. COuld you help me?

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lvta.html

Thanks

Richard

[knotyouraveragejo]

Richard,

According to wikipedia, "Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson is a classic short story published in the December 1938 edition of Esquire. The bibliography on site you have linked, gives this as the source: Stephenson, Carl, Leiningen versus the Ants, 30 STORIES TO REMEMBER 642-657 (1962) Word Count: 8881. This book had its copyright renewed.

Title 30 stories to remember. Selected
Author Thomas B. Costain and aJohn Beecroft
Registration Date 27Apr62
Renewal Date 5Apr90
Registration Number A560088
Renewal Id RE483907
Renewing Entity cMolly Haycraft & cH. D. Steinmetz (C of Thomas B. Costain)

Doesn't look promising unless there you can find an earlier publication of the short story prior to 1923.

[rkilmer]

Thanks for looking. I remember this story from high school English course. I will try for another, The Most Dangerous game.

Richard

[Guero]

Jo - Just to confirm, for this collection can I read a chapter from a book of true stories? For example, this book: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26965. Thanks.

[knotyouraveragejo]

Jo - Just to confirm, for this collection can I read a chapter from a book of true stories? For example, this book: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26965. Thanks.

Yes those would fit here just fine.

[knotyouraveragejo]

Thanks for looking. I remember this story from high school English course. I will try for another, The Most Dangerous game.

Richard

No problem Richard. If you do find a PD short story you can record, you will want to upload it to the current short story collection

viewtopic.php?f=19&t=37322

[Guero]

Nikola Tesla Sees a Wireless Vision by Anonymous (The New York Times, 3 Oct 1915)

MP3: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/jo/snf026_nikolatesslawirelessvision_anonymous_gu.mp3
Text: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times/1915/10/03/Nikola_Tesla_Sees_a_Wireless_Vision
Duration: 07:57
File size: 7.28MB

Edit: I mistakenly used snf025 in the name the first time. I reuploaded it with snf026. So, you'll see two files in there for me. (I am at work, so couldn't do anything about this on the backend myself. Sorry!)

[knotyouraveragejo]

No problem. Actually, I'd like to use this in snf025 to replace a file of a text that most likely isn't PD. Would that be OK with you?

ETA: I went ahead and PL'd this file and it's PL OK!

[Guero]

Sure, that's great. I'm glad I made the mistake after all.

[NoelBadrian]

Hi Jo,
Here's "Slang" from "Historic China and Other Sketches" by Herbert A. Giles (1845-1935).
Noel

Link url: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/jo/snf026_slang_giles_nlb.mp3
Source url: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2133
Duration - 10:54 ... ... Size - 9.98 MB

[praChirp]

I want to make sure that this is in public domain before I try to read it:

Title: Mathematical Problems
Author: David Hilbert (1862-1943)
URL: http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/hilbert/problems.html

This is a lecture given in 1900, but it was translated much later. The URL is from the Math and Computer Science Dept of Clark Univ.
Thanks,
Prachi

[knotyouraveragejo]

Prachi,

According to footnote 1

"Dr. Mary Winton Newson translated this address into English with the author's permission for Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 8 (1902), 437-479. A reprint of appears in Mathematical Developments Arising from Hilbert Problems, edited by Felix Brouder, American Mathematical Society, 1976.

The original address "Mathematische Probleme" appeared in Göttinger Nachrichten, 1900, pp. 253-297, and in Archiv der Mathematik und Physik, (3) 1 (1901), 44-63 and 213-237. [A fuller title of the journal Göttinger Nachrichten is Nachrichten von der Königl. Gesellschaft der Wiss. zu Göttingen.]

The French translation by M. L. Laugel "Sur les problèmes futurs des mathématiques" appeared in Compte Rendu du Deuxième Congrès International des Mathématiciens, pp. 58-114, Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1902.

This HTML version of Newson's translation was prepared for the web by D Joyce with only minor modifications, mainly, more complete references. "

So the text of the 1902 original translation is in the public domain in the U.S. but not in places, like Europe, where copyright is author's death plus 70 years. In this case you need to consider the translator (Mary Winston Newson 1869-1959) as well as the author. You can download a pdf version of the original publication from the Bull. AMS at this link http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1902-08-10/home.html

If you do decide to read it, it will may have to be a solo if it ends up much over an hour in length. Also, if you have never read mathematical formulas aloud before, you may also find the following link helpful.

http://s22318.tsbvi.edu/mathproject/appB-sec1.asp#main

[knotyouraveragejo]

Hi Jo,
Here's "Slang" from "Historic China and Other Sketches" by Herbert A. Giles (1845-1935).
Noel

Link url: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/jo/snf026_slang_giles_nlb.mp3
Source url: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2133
Duration - 10:54 ... ... Size - 9.98 MB

Added to MW. Thanks Noel

[NoelBadrian]

Hi,
Here is another, Africa this time. "Some Animal Friends in Africa" By Bayard Taylor (1825 –1878)
Noel

Link: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/jo/snf026_someanimalfriends_taylor_nlb.mp3
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8075
Duration - 7:52 ... ... Size - 7.2 MB