(complete) Curiosities of Street Literature by Various - tg

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Curiosities of Street Literature by Various ( - ).

This project is complete! All audio files can now be found on the catalog page for this project: https://librivox.org/curiosities-of-street-literature-by-various/

This is a collection of broadsides, short popular publications, from London. The collection contains sensationalist and sometimes comical stories about criminal conduct, love, the Royal Family, politics, as well as gallows' literature. Gallow´s Broadsides are a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. (kathrinee)
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Post by kathrinee »

Please just ignore this for a day or two till I figure out what I am doing here ;)
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Post by MaryAnnSpiegel »

Kathrine,

You might look at The Underground Railroad for an idea of how to set this up. I faced a similar issue - no chapters, lot of little pieces of varying lengths, some of which should really be grouped, difficult to indicate to readers what they were to read.

I ended up grouping sections and then creating a doc in google docs for each section - with the intro, the exact text that was included in each section, and then the outro and filename.

Project threads for that project are here (although I've since deleted the google docs that people were using):
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=44495
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=45423

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Post by kathrinee »

That is a good idea, MaryAnn, I'll have a closer look. Using googledocs would definitely make it more reader-friendly! :D BTW, is there a limit to how many sections one can have in a project? :hmm:
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Post by annise »

yes 255 - that's all Archive will handle. But I wouldn't suggest making the sections too small, grouping would be a better approach.

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Post by kathrinee »

Great, thanks! I'll set to work making googledocs :)
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Post by Elizabby »

Hi Katherine! You're so quick! I haven't had a chance to answer your PM, so I'll just post here.

It is up to you if you want to make googledocs. It does make it slightly easier for the reader, but for a book this length it is a lot of work for you too. For a book reading I generally don't.

If I were doing it, I'd do it all in the MW, and I'd err on the side of making the sections smaller rather than longer, so I'd probably start with grouping them in pairs, like this:

Section 0 - Introduction, 2890 words.
Section 1 - Division 1, part 1, 2,160 words to the end of the introductory remarks.
Section 2 - Division 1, part 2, 1,050 words comprising the "Horrid Murder" and the "Cruel and Inhuman Murder"
Section 3 - Div. 1, Part 3, 1,380 words comprising "James Ward" and the "Murder of 2 Lovers"

(You'll also notice that I tend to round off the word counts. I don't think there's any point being too exact, as the reader has to do the intro and outro, etc in addition.)

The "Great Fire of London" and the "Thunderstorm" piece fit together, so I'd group those two.
"The Scarborough Tragedy" is 2000 words on its own, so I'd probably leave that one by itself.

But I'd go through the book allowing the natural lengths and rhythm of the pieces, and the subject matter to form its own groupings and work out how many sections it ends up being by the end. So if you start with about 100 sections, you can always add more yourself. I generally find it easier to underestimate and add my own sections as I go.
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Post by kathrinee »

Thank you, Elizabby, for good advise!:D
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Post by kathrinee »

If there is a MC brave enough to take me on, I'll be ready start filling out a MW very soon ;)
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Post by TriciaG »

Are you ready for a MW? If so, I'll set you up. Then you can play with it a little bit as well. :)
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Post by kathrinee »

Thank you, Tricia, that would be wonderful! :thumbs:
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Post by TriciaG »

You're set up.

I'm out this evening, but can answer any questions later on if you have any.

Since you've DPL'd a lot, you may want to look at the intro wording to make sure it's what you want. I'm thinking you could leave out "by Various" and include any named authors in the reading of the body of the text. Does that make sense?

And, are you DPL'ing?
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Post by Elizabby »

If I may, how about we get a MW and start filling it in (those section details I gave above are accurate, BTW) but change the GROUP marker to ON HOLD until we are ready to accept claims? I don't think Katherine should feel under pressure to rush it.
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Post by kathrinee »

Yes, I am DPLing. I'll look over the wording, it does need changing :)

Having it ON HOLD is a good suggestion, Elizabby, it will take me a while...

I think I might need suggestions for genre - I didn't find any among the suggestions in the template I thought fitted. I guess there is no rush with that, though.
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Post by TriciaG »

Well, people really shouldn't be claiming in the Launch Pad anyway, but Kathrine can put "hold" in the title if she likes.

Are you officially co-BC'ing this, or are you just providing input and suggestions? The "we" is throwing me off. :lol:
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