NOTE TO READERS:A Cabinet of Gems, cut and polished by Sir Philip Sidney; now, for the more radiance, presented without their setting by George MacDonald.
"By these extracts from writings I have long loved, I hope to help some of my friends to a genuine acquaintance with the writer." (From the preface.)
The excerpts in this book, edited by George MacDonald, are taken primarily from Sir Philip Sidney's "The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia" and relate to a wide range of subjects. (Summary by Devorah Allen)
This book was printed using the "long s" which, even at the time, was archaic and had already fallen out of use. If you are unused to reading a text printed in this style, fear not. It does take a little bit of practice, but context will almost always tell you whether that character that looks like an f is really an f or if it's really an s. If you are unsure at any time about what a particular word might be, you can always ask before recording, and we'll hash it out together! I will DPL and will be particularly watching for any f/s flips, I mean slips.
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b0000378760
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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.
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End of recording:"Section # of A Cabinet of Gems. 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."] "A Cabinet of Gems, by Sir Philip Sidney, edited by George MacDonald. Section Title."
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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 A Cabinet of Gems, by Sir Philip Sidney, edited by George MacDonald."
Filename: cabinetofgems_##_sidney_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. cabinetofgems_01_sidney_128kb.mp3)
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MC to select: mightyfelix
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If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! Just post in this thread.
You and Brian posted your claims on two of the different duplicate threads that I made, but he was a little bit quicker. Anyway, I've merged everything together and deleted the duplicates. You might want to make sure that you're still subscribed to this thread, since it's technically not the same thread that you claimed in. Sorry about that! 
