All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/the-canterbury-tales-and-other-poems-by-geoffrey-chaucer/
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2383Generally considered to be the first book written in English (rather than Latin, French or Italian), Chaucer's magnum opus is a collection of stories as told by a group of pilgrims at Canterbury. It shows Chaucer's knowledge of a wide variety of story-telling styles, with oral storytelling being the norm at that time. It is widely believed by modern scholars that this work was unfinished at his death. This book also includes other poems, some of which are no longer attributed to him. David Laing Purves edited Chaucer's work to make it more accessible to more modern audiences, and has added many notes and explanations, which can be found in the text.(Summary by LynneT)
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[*]Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer
[*]Link to title on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales
[*]Number of sections (files) this project will have: 39
[*]Does the project have an introduction or preface: Yes
[*]Original publication date (if known): c1400
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Genres for the project: General Fiction/Published before 1800
Keywords that describe the book: pilgrims, poetry
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Notes to readers:
Please include prologues to the tales, except where specified in the MW as being a separate section.
Footnotes may be included at the first natural break after their mention in the text if they offer a valuable explanation or insight. Please do not read footnotes that are merely citations. The correct format is "Footnote...end footnote". Please feel free to skip footnotes if they disrupt the flow of the verse.
Please read as written... many words are in Old English and differ from their modern-day counterpart. These are not typos!
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Say:
End of recording:"Section # of The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems. 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."] "The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Section Title."
Say:
If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of section #." [Optional, and if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name, city, date."]
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer."
Filename: canterburytales_##_chaucer_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. canterburytales_01_chaucer_128kb.mp3)
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MC to select: lynnet
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If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! Just post in this thread.
As for footnotes, they are optional. I hate footnotes as they disrupt the flow, but, as you say, some are quite interesting and offer valuable information. I have been listening to the 2006 version in the catalog. I am sure we can do better (back in the early days they didn’t PL, and it sounds like some of the readers didn’t edit either 
) In that, they refer listeners to the notes in the text.