This work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain for over a hundred years. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. These recordings of Paine's exhaustive biography cover Twain's personal and literary life in detail, heretofore, unapproached. The published work is divided into 7 sections on three separate recordings:
Recording #1 (This Recording)
-VOLUME I, Part 1: 1835-1866
-VOLUME I, Part 2: 1866-1875
Recording #2
-VOLUME II, Part 1: 1875-1886
-VOLUME II, Part 2: 1886-1900
Recording #3
-VOLUME III, Part 1: 1900-1907
-VOLUME III, Part 2: 1907-1910
-Appendixes
( John Greenman and Wikipedia)
Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): wordperfect
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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Biography & Autobiography; *Non-fiction/History /Modern (19th C); *Non-fiction/Humor; *Non-fiction/Social Science; *Non-fiction/Writing & Linguistics
Keywords that describe the book: twain, mark, clemens, samuel, biography
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The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording! START of recording (Intro):
"Section [number] of (SOLO) MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY-VOLUME I, Part 1: 1835-1866 . This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
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"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Say: "(SOLO) MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY , by Albert Bigelow Paine. [Section]"
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"Section [number] of (SOLO) MARK TWAIN A BIOGRAPHY by Albert Bigelow Paine. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Only if applicable, say: "[Section title]"
END of recording:
At the end of the section, say: "End of [Section]"
If you wish, say: "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
At the end of the book, say (in addition): "End of (SOLO) MARK TWAIN A BIOGRAPHY , by Albert Bigelow Paine, VOLUME I, read by John Greenman"
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.
Example filename marktwainabiography-1_##_paine_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. (marktwainabiography-1_01_paine_128kb.mp3)
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I realize this project may be too big for ONE listing.
If that's the case...I'll need to divide it into several parts.
Please let me know the limitations you follow.
Based on past problems, please limit each section to about 60 minutes with no more than 256 sections (including section 0) per project. After taking a quick look at the table of contents I would recommend recording each volume separately (Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3) this will leave you room in the MW to split any sections into part 1/part 2 if you need to. I have set the MW up with 256 sections, and will delete the extras when it comes time to catalog.
OK
I'll look it all over and divide it up into logical sections...
Probably 7 separate listings:
VOLUME I, Part 1: 1835-1866
VOLUME I, Part 2: 1866-1875
VOLUME II, Part 1: 1875-1886
VOLUME II, Part 2: 1886-1900
VOLUME III, Part 1: 1900-1907
VOLUME III, Part 2: 1907-1910
Appendixes
then the next listing would start with:
marktwainabiography-2_01_paine_128kb.mp3
OR
can it start with the chapter number "54"??????...
marktwainabiography-1_54_paine_128kb.mp3
then the next listing would start with:
marktwainabiography-2_01_paine_128kb.mp3
so that the section numbers in each MW match the numbers in the file names. Trying to remember if section 3 is supposed to be number 54 or number 55 gets complicated after a while.
For now just marktwainabiography-1_##_paine_128kb.mp3 until it is time to start a new project. With times between 15 and 60 minutes for 256 sections you can record 64-256 hours before we need to start a new project.
then the next listing would start with:
marktwainabiography-2_01_paine_128kb.mp3
so that the section numbers in each MW match the numbers in the file names. Trying to remember if section 3 is supposed to be number 54 or number 55 gets complicated after a while.
For now just marktwainabiography-1_##_paine_128kb.mp3 until it is time to start a new project. With times between 15 and 60 minutes for 256 sections you can record 64-256 hours before we need to start a new project.
David O
but do you agree that this starting project should only include VOLUME I, Part 1: 1835-1866 ????
which is only 54 "chapters" (including the intro)
THEN the next project would be
"VOLUME I, Part 2: 1866-1875"
which is 51 "chapters"
The choice is yours on whether to separate Volume one onto 2 parts/projects or do them together one one project. Both ways separate the text at a logical point.
I plan to leave this in the Launch Pad for a little longer in hopes of attracting a DPL.
We still are figuring out exactly what will be in this first project.
I'm beginning to think that we can fit Volume 1 parts 1 AND 2 into this
And then go on from there.
I'll have to re-do the open though, to announce both parts.
DPL reporting in.