This collection of articles by and about Mark Twain and his family was compiled by Barbara Schmidt, publisher of twainquotes.com. Included in Part Two of this chronological listing (1880-1889) are some of Twain’s short stories, speeches and letters, as they appeared in the New York Times in that decade. The original microfiche articles are available at the New York Times “Time Machine” website: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser/ and here. ( John Greenman and Barbara Schmidt)
Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): wordperfect
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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 Mark Twain in the New York Times - Part Two (1880-1889). This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
Say: "Mark Twain in the New York Times - Part Two (1880-1889) Section (number) (date) (title). Read by John Greenman"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:
"Section [number] of Mark Twain in the New York Times - Part Two (1880-1889). This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
Only if applicable, say: "[Mark Twain in the New York Times - Part Two (1880-1889) Section (number) (date) (title). Read by John Greenman"
END of recording:
At the end of the section, say: "End of [Section number] (date) (title). Read by John Greenman "
At the end of the book, say : "End of Section (number) (date) (title) and end of Mark Twain in the New York Times Part Two (1880-1889) read by John Greenman "
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.
Example filename marktwaininthenewyorktimes2_##_twain_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. marktwaininthenewyorktimes2_01_twain_128kb.mp3)
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We're just about done with Part One...and I'm looking forward to getting started on Part Two.
This project uses the original microfiche files from the New York Times AND Barbara Schmidt's compilation of the NYTimes articles at Twainquotes.com.
I will provide a link to the Part Two microfiche files, to the PL and MC and for the archive listing.
Since I think I've figured out how to do this, I guess I'll MC this one, too.
Do me a favor, please, when entering the section titles into the MW. Don't use regular quote marks. They break things over at Archive. Instead, use two apostrophes in a row. (I changed your regular quotes in the last project to double apostrophes.)
TriciaG wrote: ↑December 3rd, 2019, 10:42 am
Since I think I've figured out how to do this, I guess I'll MC this one, too.
Do me a favor, please, when entering the section titles into the MW. Don't use regular quote marks. They break things over at Archive. Instead, use two apostrophes in a row. (I changed your regular quotes in the last project to double apostrophes.)
