[COMPLETE] Short stories and poems for children, original and select by Unknown-sj

[lymiewithpurpose]

Short stories and poems for children, original and select by Unknown ( - 0).

This project is now complete. All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/short-stories-and-poems-for-children-original-and-select-by-unknown/

A collection of short stories and poems for children. ( Campbell Schelp)

• Text source (only read from this text!): https://archive.org/details/ShortStoriesAndPoemsForChildren/page/n1
• Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
  
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  Magic Window:

  
  
  BC Admin
  
• 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):
  • "Chapter [number] of Short stories and poems for children, original and select. 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:
    "Short stories and poems for children, original and select, by Unknown. [Chapter]"
  
  
  For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:
  • "Chapter [number] of Short stories and poems for children, original and select by Unknown. 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:
    "[Chapter title]"
  END of recording:
  • At the end of the section, say:
    "End of [Chapter]"
  • 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 Short stories and poems for children, original and select, by Unknown."
  
  There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.
• Example filename shortstoriesandpoemsforchildren_##_unknown_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. shortstoriesandpoemsforchildren_01_unknown_128kb.mp3)
• Example ID3 V2 tags
  Artist: Unknown
  Title: ## - [Section title]
  Album: Short stories and poems for children, original and select
  
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  Any questions?
  Please post below.

[lymiewithpurpose]

This is my first time posting a new project, let me know if I made any mistakes!

[smijen]

Hi Campbell,

I can MC this for you. Everything looks correct, so good job setting up your first solo! I have a couple of suggestions, totally up to you...

One is that I might group a few stories together in each section. Otherwise, some of your sections will be so short, the intro and outro may be longer than the story. Some readers will find this annoying; others may not mind if they are playing it for very young children.

My second suggestion (especially if you are grouping stories into sections) is to change "chapter number" to "section number" in your intro and outro.

Back soon with a Magic Window.

[smijen]

All set!

As a soloist, you are your own BC, so you are responsible for updating the MW.
Instructions are here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kVj409nG_E0XJ5UrrcL7EVx7Qyx-2UQ7dbw4mINi3XQ

If you decide to group the stories into longer sections, you can remove rows from the MW yourself. See section 4.H. of the instructions.

We'll hang out in the Launch Pad for a day or so to try and catch a DPL, then I'll move your project to Going Solo.

If you have any questions, post here in the thread or PM me.
Have fun!

[lymiewithpurpose]

Ok thank you! And thanks for the suggestion! I have a feeling I'll start out with one section per row, and as I'm recording I'll see how many I can get in to feel like a good length and change it then. I'll try to update the MW later today!

[smijen]

OK, sounds good.

[lymiewithpurpose]

Managed to update the MW! Looks like I don't know how to count, though, I have 6 extra sections . In the instructions it says that only the MC can delete rows. Is this accurate? I hope to start recording in the next few days, and will get a sense then of how many stories I will try to fit in one section. Maybe then I can try and update the MW to the correct number of rows.

[smijen]

Sorry, I forgot you can't do that part. It's super-easy on my end, so if you group the stories and need to delete more, it's no big deal.

[smijen]

Moving us to Going Solo!

[lymiewithpurpose]

I managed to get caught up on other reading/PLing, so this project I'm hoping to get recorded pretty quickly. Got Chapter 1 uploaded!

I also grouped the stories into smaller sections to make around 10 minute long sections. One question, how do people usually name these sections? Leaving in all the names would be very long.

[smijen]

Just call them Section 1, Section 2, and so on.

[lymiewithpurpose]

Sorry, I meant in the MW. I know in the disclaimer to read 'Section 1' and so on, but in the MW should I name them something different?

[smijen]

I meant in the MW, too!
It's OK to just call them Section 1, Section 2, and so on in the MW as well.

[lymiewithpurpose]

Ok thanks! I have recorded the next two sections, and just left in parentheses what stories they are so the future DPL won't get confused. I'll delete the parentheses at the end .

[smijen]

Sounds good. So it's OK for me to delete all the extra rows now?