The book is a biography of Abraham Lincoln with emphasis on how his personality and beliefs impacted the history of the American Emancipation and its causes. The book is very well written, easy to read and includes valuable historical information being written by a man who was there during the civil war. He even fought in the war and was able to add his insight into the happenings from his own perspective. This book would add knowledge to anyone who really wants to know the truth about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. ( philip chenevert)
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Magic Window:
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=========================================== Our DPL is DivMS
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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Biography & Autobiography
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Channels: 1 (Mono)
Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
DURING recording: No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording! Make sure you add this to the beginning of your recording: START of recording (Intro)
"Chapter [number] of Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery in the United States. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
If you wish, say: "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Say: "Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery in the United States, by Charles Godfrey Leland. [Chapter]"
END of recording
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At the end of the book, say (in addition): "End of Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery in the United States, by Charles Godfrey Leland. "
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AFTER recording Need noise-cleaning?
Listen to your file through headphones. If you can hear some constant background noise (hiss/buzz), you may want to clean it up a bit. The new (free) version 1.3.3. of Audacity has much improved noise-cleaning. See this LibriVox wiki page for a complete guide. Save files as
128 kbps MP3
lincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_##_leland_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. lincolnandtheabolitionofslaver_01_leland_128kb.mp3)
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Sir,
I would love to volunteer as DPL for the project "Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery in the US". However, I will be able to PL only on weekends. Please let me know if I can be of any help
DivMS wrote:Sir,
I would love to volunteer as DPL for the project "Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery in the US". However, I will be able to PL only on weekends. Please let me know if I can be of any help
Regards,
Divya
That would be wonderful! Many thanks Divya. Please ask if anything is confusing at all.
I am a chronically early person. I am never ever late for work, except that one time back in '98...
but anyway,
Is it too early to request to read Chapter 12?
Truth exists for the wise, Beauty for a feeling heart: They belong to each other. - Beethoven
Disclaimer: "Kind reader, if this our performance doth in aught fall short of promise, blame not our good intent, but our unperfect wit."
In the instructions for both beginning and end of chapter, you have the reader say "Translated by philip ( - 0) [Chapter]"
I am going to venture a guess that this is a cut and paste from a previous text?
Truth exists for the wise, Beauty for a feeling heart: They belong to each other. - Beethoven
Disclaimer: "Kind reader, if this our performance doth in aught fall short of promise, blame not our good intent, but our unperfect wit."
Thanks Phil. I'm happy having my name out there, John Chancellor. I just uploaded my first swing at the chapter, would love to hear feedback! If this recording works for you, I'd love to move on to Chapter 2.
Chances wrote:Thanks Phil. I'm happy having my name out there, John Chancellor. I just uploaded my first swing at the chapter, would love to hear feedback! If this recording works for you, I'd love to move on to Chapter 2.
Wow that was fast John. I will put this into the magic window for proof listening and you will hear back in a day or so. But let's assume everything is fine and you may certainly go on to chapter 2. Have fun. !
Lemon water and chewing gum did not help my excessive and relentless mouth noise.
Deliberate enunciation and clever editing got me through this.
I don't know why this is happening now when I've never really had much of a salivary problem before, but green apples are next.
Truth exists for the wise, Beauty for a feeling heart: They belong to each other. - Beethoven
Disclaimer: "Kind reader, if this our performance doth in aught fall short of promise, blame not our good intent, but our unperfect wit."
Lemon water and chewing gum did not help my excessive and relentless mouth noise.
Deliberate enunciation and clever editing got me through this.
I don't know why this is happening now when I've never really had much of a salivary problem before, but green apples are next.
I wouldn't worry too much about it. Just edit out the most egregious ones and see what happens. But it is your recording so it is up to you of course. Stay cool and keep on having fun. Thanks for section 12.
