This project is now complete. All audio files can be found on our catalog page here:
https://librivox.org/forty-thousand-miles-over-land-and-water-by-ethel-gwendoline-vincent/
Volunteers outside the USA: Ethyl Gwendoline Vincent died in 1952. The author's work is still protected by copyright in places like Europe, UNLESS the rule of shorter term applies.
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48013 - Please do not read the footnotes!Subtitled "The Journal of a Tour through the British Empire and America" this book is a record of the author's travels with her husband, Howard Vincent, through the British Empire and America from July 1884 through March 1885. In the words of the author, "It is but a simple Journal of what we saw and did." (Summary by knotyouraveragejo)
Deadline: Please submit your recording within 2 months of placing your claim. If you cannot complete the recording within this time, please post in the thread to relinquish your claim or to ask the BC for an extension. If your recording is not completed by the deadline, your claim may be reassigned at the BC's discretion.
Claiming sections: Look in the Magic Window below for the list of available sections. Post a reply in this thread asking for the section you would like to record.
New to recording? Please see our Newbie Guide to Recording for further instructions. A quick guide to our required technical settings can be found here. When you post your file, please tell the BC what name you would like to use in our catalog.
Prooflistening level: Standard
Prospective PLs, please see the Guide for Proof-listeners.
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Magic Window:
BC Admin
Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Travel & Geography
Keywords that describe the book: travel, America, India, Canada, egypt, new zealand, 19th century travel
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Say:
End of recording:"Chapter # [Part #] of Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water, by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent. Section Title."
Say:
If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of section (or chapter) #." [Optional, and if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name, city, date."]
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water, by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent."
Filename: fortythousandmiles_##_vincent_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. fortythousandmiles_01_vincent_128kb.mp3)
Upload to the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
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MC to select: knotyouraveragejo
Copy and paste the file link generated by the uploader into a new post in this thread along with the file duration (mm:ss). Watch this thread for prooflistening notes.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! Just post in this thread.