[COMPLETE] Insomnia Collection Vol. 5 - tg

adrianstephens · Post by **adrianstephens** » October 2nd, 2020, 10:44 pm

TriciaG wrote: ↑October 2nd, 2020, 11:54 am
adrianstephens wrote: ↑October 2nd, 2020, 11:07 am I'm not volunteering, I was wondering about: http://gutenberg.org/files/20146/20146-h/20146-h.htm
BOILER and FURNACE TESTING

It's about 11,000 words total, about half of that is a big table. Would it be possible to omit the table?
Well, if one WERE to read the table, it would certainly be boring enough! :lol:

But yes, the rest of it could be read. It appears to be about 5700 words without the table, so it should be more than 30 minutes.

Shucks. A little research shows he died in 1961 - 59 years ago. This means the work is not PD for me in the UK.

Post by **ColleenMc** » October 3rd, 2020, 7:30 am

You know you are a true Librivox nerd when you squeal out loud with delight that there is a new Insomnia collection opened. My wife laughed at me.

Colleen

maxgal · Post by **maxgal** » October 3rd, 2020, 8:31 am

ColleenMc wrote: ↑October 3rd, 2020, 7:30 am You know you are a true Librivox nerd when you squeal out loud with delight that there is a new Insomnia collection opened. My wife laughed at me.

Colleen

SonOfTheExiles · Post by **SonOfTheExiles** » October 3rd, 2020, 1:43 pm

I think I last contributed to this genre several years ago, submitting an almost incomprehensible treatise on Brythonic Celtic linguistics called “The Cornish Mutations”.

But the Snooze Muse ... (that’s you, Tricia

) ... has sent forth the call again, so I think that this time it’ll be something from the wide, wide world of 19th Century engineering.

I’ll see what I can turn up.

Cheers,
Chris

Post by **TriciaG** » October 4th, 2020, 3:24 pm

Y'all are a hoot. Now, get recording!

Post by **mightyfelix** » October 8th, 2020, 9:43 pm

I enjoyed contributing to the last one. I'll have to find something good again for this one.

SonOfTheExiles · Post by **SonOfTheExiles** » October 9th, 2020, 10:22 pm

Tricia, what is the procedure if the mid-19th century author is so obscure that no-one lists his DOB or DOD, but gutenberg and archive.org accept him as PD?

Chris

https://archive.org/details/catechismofsteam00bour/page/378/mode/1up
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10998

Daisybobs · Post by **Daisybobs** » October 10th, 2020, 5:55 am

I want to claim the Grinnel College Directory.

After years of suffering through soccer results, it shouldn't be hard to project those emotions into a recording so boring that it requires a health warning for aquatic and feathered life.

Post by **TriciaG** » October 10th, 2020, 6:21 am

Daisybobs wrote: ↑October 10th, 2020, 5:55 am I want to claim the Grinnel College Directory.

After years of suffering through soccer results, it shouldn't be hard to project those emotions into a recording so boring that it requires a health warning for aquatic and feathered life.

Ha ha! Go for it!

(I'm not entering claims into the MW; just finished recordings.)

Post by **TriciaG** » October 10th, 2020, 6:23 am

SonOfTheExiles wrote: ↑October 9th, 2020, 10:22 pm Tricia, what is the procedure if the mid-19th century author is so obscure that no-one lists his DOB or DOD, but gutenberg and archive.org accept him as PD?

Chris

https://archive.org/details/catechismofsteam00bour/page/378/mode/1up
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10998

If Gutenberg accepts it as PD in the USA, it's PD for LibriVox. We'd only have to know a death year for folks like us outside the USA.

Let's see... written in 1864. Say he was 20 when he wrote it - that puts his birth at 1844. If he lived 100 years, he died in 1944. Thus he's PD for you in Australia. QED.

Daisybobs · Post by **Daisybobs** » October 10th, 2020, 6:42 am

Oh god, I got 15 minutes in and nearly sent myself into a coma. It'll probably be 70 minutes if anyone manages it.

Post by **TriciaG** » October 10th, 2020, 6:45 am

Daisybobs wrote: ↑October 10th, 2020, 6:42 am Oh god, I got 15 minutes in and nearly sent myself into a coma. It'll probably be 70 minutes if anyone manages it.

Yeah, I should have a warning on this project that it may not only put listeners to sleep, but the readers themselves!

Post by **ColleenMc** » October 10th, 2020, 6:50 am

Daisybobs wrote: ↑October 10th, 2020, 6:42 am Oh god, I got 15 minutes in and nearly sent myself into a coma. It'll probably be 70 minutes if anyone manages it.

Wait til it’s time to edit your recording!!

I think the dedicated prooflisteners for these collections deserve medals!

Colleen

SonOfTheExiles · Post by **SonOfTheExiles** » October 10th, 2020, 3:02 pm

Isn't it ruddy marvellous when my steamiest scene ever is guaranteed to put people to sleep?

Chapter XII - Manufacture and Maintenance of Steam Engines, from A Catechism of the Steam Engine, by John Bourne C.E.
Text - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10998/10998-h/10998-h.htm
Duration - 49:34
MP3 - https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/ins005_catechismofthesteamengine_bourne_128kb.mp3

Cheers,
Chris

Post by **TriciaG** » October 10th, 2020, 3:37 pm

Yay - first one in!

Isn't it ruddy marvellous when my steamiest scene ever is guaranteed to put people to sleep?

You're a hoot!