[SOLO] Old Times in the Colonies, Charles Carleton Coffin - tg

Keratak · Post by **Keratak** » January 25th, 2024, 9:58 pm

Old Times in the Colonies, by Charles Carleton Coffin (1823 - 1896)

(Summary by Keith Salis)

Source text (please read only from this text!): https://archive.org/details/oldtimesincoloni00coffiala

Target completion date: 2024-04-30

Prooflistening level: Standard
Prospective PLs, please see the Guide for Proof-listeners.

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Magic Window:

BC Admin
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:

"Section (or Chapter) # of Old Times in the Colonies. 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."] "Old Times in the Colonies, by Charles Carleton Coffin. Section Title."

For the second and subsequent sections, you may use the shortened intro if you wish:

"Section (or Chapter) # of Old Times in the Colonies, by Charles Carleton Coffin. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Section Title."

End of recording:
Say:

"End of section (or chapter) #." [Optional, and if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name, city, date."]

If you are recording the final section of the book, add:

"End of Old Times in the Colonies, by Charles Carleton Coffin."

Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.

Filename: oldtimesinthecolonies_##_coffin_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. oldtimesinthecolonies_01_coffin_128kb.mp3)

Upload to the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader

MC to select: TriciaG

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.

Post by **TriciaG** » January 26th, 2024, 6:20 am

This is set up.

I've changed the text link to the main Archive page, where one can choose the format one prefers. Other than that, I think it's all set!

Keratak · Post by **Keratak** » January 26th, 2024, 6:32 am

Thank you! So are you MC and DPL?

Post by **TriciaG** » January 26th, 2024, 9:58 am

Yes, I'll be doing both on this project.

Post by **TriciaG** » January 26th, 2024, 1:10 pm

Moved to Going Solo.

Post by **TriciaG** » February 16th, 2024, 7:28 pm

I've been working on the html for this, and here's a zip of what I have so far. I'm down into the index now, and I'll probably work some more on the images.

There were a couple spots where the text was missing some bits. It might have been inadvertent deletions of my own, or it may have been the text you supplied; I'm not sure.

My plan, if all goes swimmingly, is to proof your files twice: once to the text scan, and once to my html, to make sure I have all the formatting right and no typos - a final once-over before submitting the html to PG.

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/Old_Times_in_the_Colonies_html_working.zip

Keratak · Post by **Keratak** » February 18th, 2024, 7:54 pm

Sounds good, thanks!
I'm still trying to get a small project before this one done.
Time has been short with demolition for a remodelling job going on. I'm glad we can take advantage of the mild Winter, but that's usually my time to make Librivox hay.

Keratak · Post by **Keratak** » March 3rd, 2024, 7:23 pm

I haven't finished my other project yet, but I was itching to see how this one would go.
The Preface is ready for PL.
It was done in my "wise guy" voice, which is my favorite.
I'd started it planning just to do the Preface that way, as Coffin's voice.
However, I'm thinking of including it as the Narrator, since, austensibly, Coffin is narrating the whole book.
To me, it seems to add more flavor to this historical narrative, that could otherwise get bland.

I'm throwing this one up to you to see what you think, since you are the poor soul who agreed to listen to this for many hours.
My normal voice is like the Intro and Outro.

You are free to say:
It really isn't as clever as you think it is, let's stick with your natural voice (I still plan to use characters for the dialogue along the way).
It's OK for the Preface, but revert to vanilla for the rest of it.
It sounds great, go with it, we are sure to win Librivox's highest award for this one!

I'll probably not release anything more on this for a while, as I'd like to finish the last project before I get into releaseing this one, but I would be recording this whenever time, weather, and neighbors will allow.

Thanks!
Keith

Post by **TriciaG** » March 7th, 2024, 1:45 pm

PL OK!

I like how you rendered it! So I say, "It sounds great, go with it, we are sure to win Librivox's highest award for this one!"

Keratak · Post by **Keratak** » March 7th, 2024, 1:55 pm

Thanks!
I'll proceed as I can with it.
His writing, I think, will lend itself to a little flavor in the telling.

Keratak · Post by **Keratak** » March 23rd, 2024, 12:56 pm

So you know, I'm still working on it.
I'm finishing another project in editing, but have 11 Chapters of this one recorded so far.
Since it came up in another thread, I thought I'd check with you: I've been reading "Chapter 1," etc. at the beginnings of these.
I like the sound of Chapter over Section, but hope it won't be an issue with Section 1 being the Preface.
I thought I'd see how you felt about it before getting in farther into it.

Post by **TriciaG** » March 23rd, 2024, 4:45 pm

That's fine. You have your choice on saying "section" or "chapters". But I'd recommend we renumber the preface as section 0, and that way the file names and chapter numbers will all line up.

If you agree, I can fix what's up already, and you'd just need to rename the files you haven't uploaded yet.

Keratak · Post by **Keratak** » March 25th, 2024, 9:41 pm

That sounds good.
Thanks.

Post by **TriciaG** » March 26th, 2024, 5:09 am

Sections renumbered from 0, first file renamed.

Keratak · Post by **Keratak** » March 29th, 2024, 1:03 pm

Ch 1 is ready for PL.