This project is now complete. All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/the-book-of-the-thousand-nights-and-a-night-volume-13/
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3447/This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators, and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800 and 900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband to prevent him from executing her. In translating the Nights, R. F. Burton attempted to invent an English equivalent of medieval Arabic. In doing so, he drew upon Chaucerian English, Elizabethan English, and the 1653 English translation by Sir Thomas Urquhart of the first three books of Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-1546). This thirteenth volume contains the following tales:(Summary by based on Wikipedia article and Volume 13 itself)
- 1. The Tale of Zayn Al-Asnam
2. Alaeddin; or, The Wonderful Lamp
3. Khudadad and His Brothers4. The Caliph's Night Adventure
- a. History of the Princess of Daryabar
5. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
- a. The Story of the Blind Man, Baba Abdullah
b. History of Sidi Nu'uman
c. History of Khwajah Hasan Al-Habbal
6. Ali Khwajah and the Merchant of Baghdad
7. Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Peri-Banu
8. The Two Sisters Who Envied Their Cadette
Target completion date: 2023-06-01
Prooflistening level: Standard
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Magic Window:
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
For the first section, say:
For the second and subsequent sections, you may use the shortened intro if you wish:"Section (or Chapter) # of Supplemental Nights to The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 13. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Supplemental Nights to The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 13, by Anonymous, translated by Richard Francis Burton. Section Title."
End of recording:"Section (or Chapter) # of Supplemental Nights to The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 13, by Anonymous, translated by Richard Francis Burton. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Section Title."
Say:
If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of section (or chapter) #." [Optional, and if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name, city, date."]
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of Supplemental Nights to The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 13, by Anonymous, translated by Richard Francis Burton."
Filename: arabiannights13_##_anonymous_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. arabiannights13_01_anonymous_128kb.mp3)
Upload to the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
MC to select: Kazbek
Copy and paste the file link generated by the uploader into the relevant Listen URL field in the Section Compiler, enter the duration in the Notes field, and post in this thread to let your PL and MC know that you have uploaded a file. You may also post the file link in the thread.