LIBRIVERSARIES - NOVEMBER 2024

[msfry]

Librivox was born in August 2005 and since day 1, we have valued ALL our volunteers. Whether you participate daily, weekly, or just every now and then, you are part of our LibriVox family and we are grateful for your contributions*.

This month we celebrate 88 *active members* who joined in November a year or more ago, and send a hearty round of applause for "job well done" and "thank you for your contributions". As you run across these names in your projects, how about giving them a high five or pat on the back, and direct them to this page (which they may not even know about) to see who else shares their Libriversary month and year.



Active members celebrating a November Libriversary are as follows:

19 years, joined 2005 (1)
Peter Yearsley (Peter Why)

18 years, joined 2006 (2)
J. M. Smallheer (knotyouraveragejo)
Justin S Barrett (Jazbees)

16 years, joined 2008 (1)
Matthew_J_Almeida (Matthew_J_Almeida)

14 years, joined 2010 (2)
Laura Victoria (lvictoria)
progressingamerica (progressingamerica)

13 years, joined 2011 (4)
Piotr Nater (Piotrek81)
Dan Gurzynski (dg73)
Rapunzelina (Rapunzelina)
Daniel Sanchez (Hiro861)

12 years, joined 2012 (2)
Deon Gines (deongines)
Jill Engle (jillebean)

11 years, joined 2013 (2)
Jessie Percival (jpercival)
Curtis R. (crr7735)

8 years, joined 2016 (1)
karampas1968 (karampas1968)

7 years, joined 2017 (1)
nighthawks (nighthawks)

6 years, joined 2018 (6)
Dyefferson Azevedo (DyeffersonAz)
MajorToast (MajorToast)
OliverBoliver (OliverBoliver)
oogiesragdoll (oogiesragdoll)
Ruth P. (RuthP)
SweetHome (SweetHome)

5 years, joined 2019 (6)
Ethan Hurst (ethanhurst)
Hincenbergs (Hincenbergs)
Jddykst (Jddykst)
Matea Bracic (EltonTheSnowman)
Scott Caulkins (SCaulkins)
seito (seito)

4 years, joined 2020 (10)
Guster (Guster)
Laura Mainetti (CarlaMai)
LeeSalter (LeeSalter)
Rebecca Eden Walker (BeckyWTX)
Sirena Rose (SirenaRose)
Victor Seremet (victorseremet)
Zach Hoyt (zachh)
3 years, joined 2021 (3)
Aviva Apfel (Annabanana22)
Lisa Greene (LGreene)
Shickey (Shickey)

2 years, joined 2022 (12)
Amanda Bationaud (lkvox)
Bryan Applegate (PeaceGalley)
David S. Ingram (Hatch22)
LouisMercredi (LouisMercredi)
Lu (lu88)
PaulGrancio (PaulGrancio)
phineas2000 (phineas2000)
Rachel Tevis (RachelLea)
Robert Gordon (rgg28164)
Sagar Patke (colincosta)
Sarah Foster (FantasyCargoPantz)
VO Gal (VOgalUS)

1 years, joined 2023 (38)
Alysia (aly36)
Anooshka Bajaj (ab490)
C Westini (TMTWestini)
Chocolate Yoddah (ChocolateYoddah)
Damien Le (damienle)
Daniel Glover (DanielpGlover)
Grevicci (Grevicci)
hdevlin (hdevlin)
Hedwig819 (Hedwig819)
Jack Hiller (GeneralGiblits)
John Leloup (JohnLeloup)
John Owen (byJO)
jrwhalen (jrwhalen)
JT Strong (Audiobookaddict)
JudyS (JudyS)
Kayla (kaylae19)
Keith Ghormley (krrrg)
Kimberly (marink)
LaraJ (sweetnecromancy84)
Layan (Layan)
Leylakatam (Leylakatam)
lhoughton (libbyhoughton)
Mark Cid (MarkCid)
Meribau (Meribau)
MicheleOspina81 (MicheleOspina81)
RedCorsair (RedCorsair)
RobinAbbott (RobinAbbott)
Sandra Huston (voiceoversandy)
Seahorse (Seahorse)
slacker1991 (slacker1991)
teesaloveless (teesaloveless)
Texasbookworm42 (bigedpcVO)
Tinybear08 (Tinybear08)
TotalEcho (TotalEcho)
Tressa Collins (tlcollins)
Wayne Hom (waynehom)
yunilis (yunilis)
Zhongdonian (Zhongdonian)

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*Contributions* include BC'ing and MC'ing projects, recording/completing files, proof-listening, cover making, plus editing, creating Wikipedia links, programming and other behind the scenes tasks that may be hard to notice active participation in (unless you speak up).

*Active member* is defined by some level of contribution to growing our catalog within the past 12 months. If you think your name has been left off this list, or misspelled, please PM msfry. Members who become active again after a long absence and are still in our Membership database, can make the list in future years.

The current Libriversary announcement is a Sticky at the top of the News Forum. Past Libriversaries don't disappear . . . they are linked to below, and can also be found in the forum by searching for "Libriversaries-Month".

2023 Libriversaries In Review:
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2024 Libriversaries In Review:
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October

Don't remember when you signed up? Check the right hand column of any post you make.

[Peter Why]

I've dropped off the list! (November 24th 2005)

Peter

[Rapunzelina]

You're so legendary that your membership is off the charts, Peter

[msfry]

Peter tops the list again!

If I counted right, you were the 80th person to join Librivox. There is a story in that if you'd care to reminisce, like how you found out about LV, previous recording experience, etc. Last year you revealed you use a Blue Yeti mike. Tell us more. Do you record in a closet, recording booth, at the kitchen table? Are you using Audacity? What?

And just in case you didn't see it on the LV Facebook page last week, I put this plug in for one of Peter's earliest books, which I finished listening to last night:
"Almost one week before Halloween, and just the right time to revisit one of our earliest Librivox gems, read to us by Peter Yearsley back in 2006! Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, by Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936). These files stream on the Librivox Audiobook App and on LV YouTube, even while IA is down. The author, says the summary, wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales, and that's just how Peter reads them. ENJOY!"

[Peter Why]

Legendary! A strange thought; thanks, Rapunzelina.

Michele ... weren't there a few more November LVers last year?

How I got into LV: I had been proofreading in Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders (and had scanned and OCR'd a few books for them), when someone mentioned Librivox on their forum, and I came over to see what was going on ... and left PGDP. Two of my early solos were books I had bought and scanned for DP.

I don't think I had done any voice recording before, though I was happy enough with the sound of my voice, as I had sung casually in folk clubs around 1970 and was fairly well received. I did and do enjoy reading aloud and I occasionally imitate voices that I hear on the radio that amuse me.

I think my first recordings were made on a Yoga EM-278 condenser microphone attached to a fairly noisy computer ... so noisy that I was tempted to record onto a cassette tape and load the file onto the computer for editing, but eventually recorded with the mike a couple of metres away from the computer, and cleaned the hiss and hum later. We didn't have the upload system that we have now, and I had to upload the sound file to an external storage for my coordinator to download for processing to archive.org (no PLing in those days!).

Now I record on the Blue Yeti that I bought in 2010. I think I was the first one of us to get one of these microphones (I posted about it on July 10th 2010): viewtopic.php?p=492935&hilit=Blue+Yeti#p492935 I now have a silent desktop computer (no fans, no hard disks), and a wall of shelves full of books a few metres behind me, which seem to block echo and reverberation well.

I do use Audacity, and have done all my time here. I have trouble with their updates ... I've no idea how to transfer the parameters of the compressor that I used in the previous version to the much-changed current one, for example ... but find it very easy to use, though I probably don't use it as efficiently as I could. I edit my recordings by listening through them from start to finish.

Peter

[jpercival]

Oh the curse of the old loud desktops. I was recently looking through some of my old threads on here and apparently I would toss a couple blankets over my PC just to try to muffle the sound! Thank goodness for hardware upgrades that stopped that issue.

[msfry]

Michele ... weren't there a few more November LVers last year?

Last year there were 103 active members, this year 88, a difference of 15.
Last year there were 53 active 1st years. This year 38. That alone would account for the difference. Plus, this list tracks only members "active in the past year". People do drop out awhile, then pop in again, sometimes after many years, whence they resume their original placement in the list.

TIP: At the bottom of each Libriversary page are links to previous months, beginning in 2023.

[msfry]

Thank you Peter. It's so interesting to learn stories from LV'ers about the early years, and personals of their recording experiences. All others are encouraged to participate.

I thought your voice quality was fine even back in the "olden days", with no recording experience and a bad mike. You do have a melodious voice, with ample expression that distinguishes the characters. A labyrinth builder myself, I particularly enjoyed the spooky last chapter of the aforementioned book, about the haunted labyrinth. I will share that with my husband real soon. The dark arts . . . a perfect story for Halloween season.