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Dear LibriVoxers,

we will celebrate our 11th anniversary on the 10th of August 2016. This is an enormous achievement for an organisation that is purely volunteer driven, without staff, without offices, a budget of zero, and not even big advertisements campaigns. Let's celebrate this milestone in our own way, the only way it ought to be celebrated:

With 10,000 catalogued projects!

We did it!
We catalogued project 10,000 on August 6th, 21:13 GMT!
:clap:

We're obviously on a roll! How many more can we complete before the anniversary on Wednesday?
The challenge will close on August 9th, midnight Pacific Standard Time.

Final count: 10,022


Readers: Have a look at your claims and record away! Have you submitted all your edits? What about that solo of yours, started 2 years ago, with only 3 sections done? (Here's looking at you, Ava! :oops: )
DPLs: Are you on top of your commitments? Maybe there's a section or two in another project that could use your sharp ears!
BCs: Check your Magic Windows - are all your claims current? if you cannot reach a reader, consider opening up old claims for somebody else to read. See also here for a suggested post in all your projects.

This is a very special "clean-up month". It will end on August 9th at the latest - hopefully with 10,000 books in our catalog!
Below you will find a list of projects started last year (as usual), as well as those with less than 5 sections uncompleted (regardless of starting date).
Let's go!

The deadline has passed - thank you for your contributions!
The list below will not be maintained any longer.


Projects with less than 5 sections uncompleted:
(A section is uncompleted if it is open/assigned/ready for PL/See PL notes/ready for spot PL)


Projects started last year and needing that final push:

English Fiction

[KIDS] Ben Pepper by Margaret Sidney 2 sections open
[TEEN ADVENTURE] In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz 3 sections open - NOT PD EU!
[HUMOR] Potash and Perlmutter by Glass 8 sections open

[ROMANCE] Marriage 2 by Edmonstoune Ferrier 10 sections open
[HISTORICAL FICTION] The Deluge by Sienkiewicz 11 sections open
[HISTORICAL FICTION] The Favor of Kings by Bradley 11 sections open - NOT PD EU/AUS/CA
[RAGS 2 RICHES] The Rise of David Levinsky by Cahan 13 sections open - NOT PD EU!
[LADIES] The Letter of Credit by Warner 15 sections open
[ROMANCE] The Glory of the Conquered by Glaspell 20 sections open

English Nonfiction

[RELIGION] Commentary on the Book of Genesis 7 sections open
[BIOGRAPHIES] Lives of the Artists 5 by Vasari 9 sections open - NOT PD AUS!

[RELIGION] The Sikh Religion 3 by Macauliffe 14 sections open
[RELIGION] The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying by Taylor 14 sections open

Group Projects in other languages:

[ARABIC]Tabai al Istibdad by Al-Kawakibi 3 sections open
[NEDERLANDS] Sprookjes Verzameld door Gebroeders Grimm 6 sections open
[PORTUGUESE] Antologia Brasileira, Coletânea em Prosa e Verso de Escritores Nacionais 21 sections open
[ESPANOL] Los ladrones de Londres de Dickens 7 sections open
[RUSSKI] Портреты русских поэтов, Илья Эренбург 3 sections open
[DEUTSCH] Der Sohn der Hagar von Keller 11 sections open
[ITALIANO] Le Rime di Dante 87 short sections open


Please help editing or PLing:
Editing help wanted: [PLAY] The Witch of Edmonton


Fully claimed: Thank you! :thumbs:
[NONFICTION WWI] Flying for France by McConnell
[ROMANCE] Emmeline by Turner Smith
[KING ARTHUR] The Story of the Champions of the Round Table by Pyle
[SHORTS] Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
[KIDS] Friendly Fairies by Gruelle
[HISTORY 4 KIDS] Our Young Folks' Plutarch by Kaufman
[MYSTERY] The Shadow of a Man by Hornung
[US HISTORY] A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant
[TEEN ADVENTURE] In the Irish Brigade by Henty
[FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY] The Vicar's Daughter by MacDonald
[PHYSICS/ASTRONOMY] Miscellanea Curiosa 1 by Halley
[BIOGRAPHY/PHILOSOPHY] CYROPAEDIA: THE EDUCATION OF CYRUS by Xenophon
[KIDS] "Boy" The Wandering Dog by Saunders
[ESSAYS] Curiosities of Street Literature by Various
[DEUTSCH] Ligeia und Andere Novellen von Poe
[TEENS] Dove in the Eagle's Nest by Yonge
[ADVENTURE] Fair Margaret by H. Rider Haggard
[NOVEL]Little Women by Alcott
[HOBBY] Stamp Collecting as a Pastime by Nankivell


Completed from the list:
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Advent Days and Poems of Remembrance
Sieben Gedichte
Short Stories from the Locomotive Engineers Journal
The Kallikak Family
Ebony and Chrystal
Tolstoi for the Young
Lettres persanes
A Peep Behind the Scenes
The Little Angel and Other Stories
Nell and her Grandfather
:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
History of a Six Weeks' Tour
The Well at the World's End
Uganda's White Man of Work
Half Hours with the Idiot
Poems
Famous Impostors
Shakespeare: Life and Work
Gleams of Sunshine
Criminal Investigation, Vol. 2
Astounding Stories 19
:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
Abraham Lincoln - A History Vol. 3
Oldtown Folks
Christ Legends
Sämtliche Schriften Teil 5
With the Judæans in the Palestine Campaign
British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions
Harper's Young People
Raleigh
The Town Down the River
Enquire Within Upon Everything
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Mont Oriol
The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy
Old Friends, Essays in Epistolary Parody
The Making of a Bigot
The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook
The Reason Why
The Ocean Waifs
Clarissa Harlowe Vol. 6
Sentimental Tommy
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - project 10,000 :birthday:

We made our 10,000 goal before our anniversary - so let's see how many more from the list we can finish until then!
:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
Across Asia on a Bicycle
The Revolutions of Time
Speeches Against Catilina
Chinese Diamonds for the King of Kings
The Kalevala
Cheers, Ava.
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Important note to all BCs: Your projects are eagerly awaited by listeners! For that reason, and also because there is limited space on the Librivox server, we want to make sure that all projects move steadily towards completion.

Please look through your projects for uncompleted sections that were claimed by readers more than 2 months ago.
Post a reply in your project thread saying:
"To be fair to the readers who have completed their sections in a timely way, all unrecorded sections that were claimed more than 2 months ago will be orphaned on July 9th unless the claimants post in this thread before then to reclaim the section."

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[color=red]"To be fair to the readers who have completed their sections in a timely way, all unrecorded sections that were claimed more than [b]2 months ago[/b] will be orphaned on [b]July 9th[/b] unless the claimants post in this thread before then to reclaim the section."[/color]
Please also edit your first post to include this info.

We want to help you complete your projects! Many thanks for your help in this! :)

Note that we are only including projects in the above list that started before January 2016, or those that are really, really close to completion. :!:
You can still read for other projects as well - every section helps!
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This is our latest installment of a clean-up month to see if we can finish 10.000 projects by the time of our anniversary on August 10th.

That's almost 200 projects in only 6 weeks.

Ambitous? Definitely!
Impossible? Not at all - if we do it together!

Please let me know if you have comments or questions - of if I missed any projects of yours. Please post here also when sections in your projects got claimed - or orphaned, whether it is on the list now or not, especially if there's a project of yours that has reached 5 (or less) uncompleted sections!

And now: Let's get to work!
Where's my microphone...?
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Post by AdeledePignerolles »

Are dramatic works included or not?
Thanks for organizing this! :)
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No they are not included, neither plays nor dramatic readings.

I have checked all the projects in the DR forum and have talked to the MCs most active there (Todd and MaryAnn), and they share my opinion.

Many of the plays/DRs are full and in wait for the readers to record, but even if all readers submitted PL ok recordings tomorrow, the sheer work of editing will probably not be done within the 6 week target anyway, given how many editors we have.

However, if your project is fully recorded and all parts PL OK, and you would like to have help with editing, you can post here as advertisement. I think that's okay.
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Yeah! :thumbs:
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:lol:

Well, technically I could already talk of 192 projects left to go since your Anniversary project will definitely be finished in time. But, let's keep our numbers straight here, even if they are not multiples of 11... :wink:
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Flying for France has been claimed.
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Post by Carolin »

Sieben gedichte is full!
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Post by Lynnet »

The Making of a Bigot is down to 5 sections viewtopic.php?f=2&t=61115

The Strange Story Book is down to 2 sections viewtopic.php?f=19&t=60478&hilit=+strange+story
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Post by SweetPea »

Yay! :D
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Thanks Kim and Carolin - I have updated the list.

Lynne,
I'm sorry but both your projects are not eligible right now
- they were started this year and
- have more than 5 uncompleted sections.

A section is uncompleted if it is in any status other than "complete" (meaning: open/Ready for PL/Pl notes/Ready for Spot PL). I would like to keep this particular part of the first post as short as possible for the really really fast moving projects.

Your "Famous Impostors" project is okay though - I've added it to the top list.
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Over (my) night, we have catalogued 9 projects. :clap:

If we can keep up this speed, there will be no problem whatsoever with reaching the 10000...

Please keep reading!
Every single open project is looking for readers, whether it is on the list above or not.
Every single section counts - no matter which project you are reading for: On the list, not on the list, solos, dramas...

We can do this! :thumbs:
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Post by carteki »

Availle wrote:No they are not included, neither plays nor dramatic readings.

I have checked all the projects in the DR forum and have talked to the MCs most active there (Todd and MaryAnn), and they share my opinion.

Many of the plays/DRs are full and in wait for the readers to record, but even if all readers submitted PL ok recordings tomorrow, the sheer work of editing will probably not be done within the 6 week target anyway, given how many editors we have.

However, if your project is fully recorded and all parts PL OK, and you would like to have help with editing, you can post here as advertisement. I think that's okay.
The maths goes - in June 2015 we had "June High Noon" where 120 projects were completed - most since 2009! And now we need to complete 190+ so in my mind it makes sense to pick up those DR's which can be easily completed.

I counted that there are 6 DR's that are "full". Those will be a good addition to the completed books. Ask the MC's and BC's to hurry up their completion.
These 3 projects are very close to completion:
Treasure Island is 3 roles short of completion.
Bible Stories of the Old Testament needs 6 roles (1 chapter each)
Imaginary Conversations needs 11 roles (1 chapter each) (also older than 1 year).

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The problem is not the reading as I said above, the problem is the editing. And I don't see any of those projects finished with reading + role PLing + editing + act PLing within the six weeks we have. This has nothing to do with the BCs (many of them don't edit themselves) and certainly not with the MCs.

Don't get me wrong, by all means, feel free to help with the DRs, even if we don't finish them any move towards completion is a good one. But we have so many other normal projects open where reading and PLing alone suffices to finish them, I think this thread should focus on those.
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