TADAA indeed
thank you so much Colleen, I guess this has been the most-awaited section at the moment
And you gave it a brilliant finishing touch, excellently narrated, an adventurous story and totally
PL ok right away.
So yes indeed....we have reached the end, not only of the project but also of the WORLD STORY SERIES.
Instead of my usual end-of-project Oscar speech, which has become a tradition already, let me this time make it a huge end-of-series speech.
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*drum roll*
And now we are at the end of our voyage around the world. It has been a treat for me to listen to all your wonderful recordings and learn so much about the history of our world. I am very happy that it came to a close now,
but also a little bit sad
that it's over and I am sure many of you share this feeling.
A few statistics, to round off the project.
The first project started on 21st November 2017.
When I decided to run the series, I had no idea how long this would drag out and whether it would be successful or not, but the enthusiasm, commitment and dedication of all the participants absolutely exceeded my expectations.
Thanks to all of you (list of readers will follow),
this last book finished today, 14th August 2021.
That's about
three and a half years for a total of 15 books. I think we can all agree that this is very fast.
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Maybe the number of "views" up to today will show you that your efforts have not been wasted:
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Volumes 1 to 4 finished in 2018
Book 1: 55,423 views
Book 2: 18,322 views
Book 3: 13,390 views
Book 4: 10,054 views
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Volumes 5 to 8 finished in 2019
Book 5: 43,178 views
Book 6: 29,373 views
Book 7: 26,130 views
Book 8: 40,069 views
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Volumes 9 to 13 finished in 2020
Book 9: 54,352 views
Book 10: 67,546 views
Book 11: 10,856 views
Book 12: 8,416 views
Book 13: 25,537 views
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Volumes 14 and 15 finished in 2021
Book 14: 18,483 views
Book 15: just finished, obviously no views yet
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If you want to check out the
wonderful covers all designed by Basquetteur, here you can find the entire series on one page:
https://librivox.org/group/605
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If I counted correctly, the
total run time of all 15 books amounts to over a whopping 275 hours - it would take you
11 and a half days to listen through it all in one marathon session
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The huge feat has been achieved by a total of no less than
141 LibriVox volunteer readers and I seriously hope I did not forget anybody - if you don't see your name on the list, scream and I'll add it !
Participation was as follows:
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in 1 book:
96 readers (aaronwhite1977 / abbya22 / Adamsantoni / AddieChris / adonis / akatsu / alanine / AllenO / alzounes / andreearux / Aperi / AtalieH / atelo / automatonlexicon / bbogle / bellanelson875 / Bloater51 / brianna / BriannaChiles / Calleola / chulsky / clionawoodbyrne / CoreyKendrick / Craigos / DanielHurt / Denisette / dlantz / dmusgrove / ehrgeiziges / EmilioC / emmacharliebrowning / engineerSTL / eringrassie / ewinters / ezwa / FernandoBorrego / Fongie / fsurget / grs2905 / hayduo / Horner94 / Hunnoe / idcmate / IlliniThom / Iunta4Ios / janop / jaredstarr1 / jasonb / jbarbacc / JenniferFour / JT68 / JulieB3 / Kalamareader / Katgirl576 / kathrinee / kayray / KeithMan / kissy / krazystew / KTBMedia / KuyaCarrot / lorda / marcelacollado / matt4312 / MegH / mleigh / mmcclallen / MonaJaheen / msfry / munanahhas / Nicky504 / NinjaOfNix / Nuria / Phjodor / pschempf / RajVO / Rawbean23 / RobMarland / rpotenza / RufusNight / rumpledpoetry / sarahrejoice / smlavine / Sonrisaj / sphinxofblackquartz / srewis194 / Sshoger / StevenW / Stoofy / swalkerl / techpsalti / Tim811 / tovarisch / valeriemarino / wubwave / yaelh)
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in 2 books:
12 readers (DrPGould / Farnood / Fishfish / flup / GregGiordano / Hopeforce1 / Hypathia / iBeScotty / Leni / Nella / Parsa2020 / RitaBoutros)
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in 3 books:
8 readers (BurgundyGrace / ChrisFields / Jmbau13 / Lmnei / PatrS / Roger / RuthP / SonOfTheExiles)
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in 4 books:
2 readers (adrianstephens / BettyB)
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in 5 books:
7 readers (benderca / KevinS / Piotrek81 / realisticspeakers / SaraHale / silverquill / thestorygirl)
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in 6 books:
1 reader (Foon)
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in 7 books:
0 readers
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in 8 books:
2 readers (Kikisaulite / knotyouraveragejo)
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in 9 books:
2 readers (bluechien / NemoR)
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in 10 books:
0 readers
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in 11 books:
1 reader (catharmaiden)
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in 12 books:
2 readers (moniaqua / ToddHW)
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in 13 books:
1 reader (ColleenMC)
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in 14 books:
3 readers (adr6090 / alanmapstone / Availle)
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in ALL 15 books:
4 readers (Kitty / mightyfelix / neecheelok70 / WiltedScribe)
THANK YOU ALL !!!
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Now I will launch the cataloguing process, and I'll post the link once it's done. This will take some time.
Sonia