Recordings with the avowed aim of boring our audience to snores.
It has been 4 years since the last collection! Can you believe it? It's about time for a new one!
Obviously, soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's Tedium Incarnate to one person will be another person's Passion and Delight. Thus NO INSULT IS INTENDED in the choice of material here. Lists, tables, and repetitive material are especially appropriate. You may NOT nominate other Librivoxers' existing chapters for inclusion. However, should you wish to read your own version of something you've found particularly insipid, please feel free. .
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Readings should last between 30-70 minutes. (Longer than that -- please divide it into two parts. Shorter readings are unlikely to give listeners enough time to be relaxed.) Please read in a Calm and Placid manner. If you find your chosen topic too exciting, and that affects your serene speed or tranquil tone, please consider donating your recording to another Collection. Readings may be contributed in ANY LANGUAGE but the text must be potentially dull to other speakers of that language. .
Where do I find texts?
There's a list in the next post of some I thought suitable, but you're welcome to choose any text that's in the Public Domain. If in doubt, please get it checked by posting here FIRST (particularly if you are reading from print and not an online source.) You are welcome to pick a couple of chapters of a book, or a particularly slow section from a scientific paper, or divide the material in another way you find appropriate. Please do NOT change the content itself or the order of what has been written.This is probably the only opportunity that many utterly banal texts will ever have to be recorded by us, so choose wisely.CLICK HERE to see what was included in volume 1. CLICK HERE to see what was included in volume 2. CLICK HERE to see what was included in volume 3. .
Is there a deadline?
No, this will be catalogued when it reaches 20 entries, or readers' interest is lost for more than 3 months consecutively, whichever comes first.
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Texts on Archive.org: (These are some I came up with, especially when searching for "directory". There should be plenty of other material on Archive as well.)
"I found these at Project Gutenberg by searching under various terms such as 'history', 'lecture', 'essays', 'analysis' etc. However, there are likely to be all kinds of gems with quite interesting names, which are actually akin to ditchwater in practice, so feel free to do whatever you like!" Texts on Project Gutenberg (search for them by title key word):
A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe, Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations
Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889
A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition
The Natural History of Wiltshire
Elements of Civil Government
Greek in a Nutshell
Fires and Firemen: from the Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Vol XXXV No. 1, May 1855
The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations
Ha! I ran across some great candidates for this the other day, and was thinking of asking you if we might have another collection soon. I'll dust those off and bore you silly.
TriciaG wrote: ↑April 27th, 2019, 8:31 am
Yep, that would work!
I may give it a try after I finish my last section of the Home Rule project. I'll have to look to see if the vocabulary of whale parts and the like is too much for me.
Book 3, Chapter 2 of the Hunchback of Notre Dame would make a good piece, IMHO. "A Bird's-eye View of Paris" describes the layout of Paris - its principal bridges, neighborhoods, character of the buildings in each neighborhood. And I think it might have talked about the history of the city's borders, how it grew out from its center. It almost put me to sleep while listening to it (although the reader did an excellent job with it). 9500 words, or about an hour of recording. The PG html version has a lot of character errors in the French, on my computer anyway. The plain text version looks correct. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2610
Time is 4.24
Proceedings of the National Geographic Society
Session 1896-97
National Geographic Magazine May 1897
Author unknown
archive.org/details/nationalgeograph81897/nati/page159
I'm sorry, Betty - the recordings for this project need to be between 30 and 70 minutes, not shorter. We need nice, long recordings to give people time to fall asleep.
Perhaps you could rename the file and submit it to the Short Nonfiction Collection?
This is part of the entry for Copper in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition. I wasn't sure how to handle the title, author, and filename; I'm happy to change them if they need it.
Oh I'm so excited there will be another insomnia collection! I often use Librivox recordings to fall asleep (Federalist Papers has been a years long project) but when I'm having high anxiety, the insomnia collections are the big guns! Those town directories work every time!
Very excited at the idea of contributing to one. Will have to watch for a good piece to use!
Colleen
Colleen McMahon
No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai
29:44 - throat clearing "constitute the principal expense of the method. *clear* The other items of cost..."
38:33 - repeat: "in the same solvent by J... by James Douglas and..."
I think we're fine sticking with "Unknown" as the author in the file name. It'll show up as being by "Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Ed." in the catalog; that's good enough.