Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment by J Burroughs

[supersarah1999]

The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment by Jeremiah Burroughs (1599 - 1646) .

A detailed look at contentment from a Biblical point of view. (Summary by Sarah Comfort)

• Target completion date: 2012-Apr-15
• Text source (only read from this text!): http://www.monergism.com/contentment.html
• Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
  
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  • Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Burroughs
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  • Number of sections (files) this project will have: 8
  • Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: no
  • Original publication date (if known): 1731
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  Genres for the project:
  religion
  
  Keywords that describe the book:
  Puritan, Contentment, Christian
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[RuthieG]

Welcome to LibriVox, Sarah!

I am a little concerned about the text source, on which monergism.com claims copyright. I can see from the first few paragraphs that the text has been modernised to some extent, as there is a scan of the original work on the Internet Archive at http://www.archive.org/details/rarejewelchrist00burrgoog so their copyright claim on their version may be valid, and all our recordings MUST be made from sources that are clearly in the public domain.

In addition, I do not want to discourage you, but we do see many new readers start solos which they do not finish because they have not realised how much time and commitment it will take. So we do recommend that you first contribute a chapter to a group recording in Readers Wanted, or record a short story or two before launching into a solo. This is because as a soloist, you will be responsible for managing your project and it is helpful to know a bit about how things work.

For instance, this is a work of around 84,000 words, and although it is divided into 8 sections, you would definitely need more sections than this in your recording, as no section may be longer than about 70 minutes maximum (so that it can fit on an audio CD).

By doing some other short recordings, you will get a feel for a) how long it will take you to record and edit (much longer than most people realise) and b) what speed you read at (how many words a minute), so that you will have a better idea of how many sections you will need.

Please consider taking this course of action, and then looking for a text source that is clearly PD (if you cannot read from the Internet Archive book scan, which is not easy to read).

Ruth

[supersarah1999]

Thanks for the feed back!!! I looked at the how to determine if something is Public Domain link that was provided and I thought that the age of the original was the determining factor. The original of this should be old enough to fall squarely into public domain, but in looking closer into it at the things you mentioned most of the versions I found are not really original but have some modernization. Thanks for the follow up I would love to do this book or something like it at some point but I see the wisdom you have in recommending starting at a less grand scale

I did look over the readers wanted section and did not really see anything that I was interested in right off, but I will keep an eye there for possibilities. In the meantime do you think that looking for shorter works at Project Gutenberg might be a good idea? I was thinking that might be a next step if I don't find a good fit right off in the reader's wanted list. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated I am eager to get started, but I also want to make sure I'm doing things the way I should!!!

Thanks!!!
Sarah

[Darvinia]

A quick perusal down the first page of Readers Wanted: Short Works turned up these collections. In these you choose your own piece to submit (under 70 minutes) as long as it adheres to the theme of the collection. I hope you can find something here that interests you. We welcome multiple versions so if you find a short story you like that is already in our catalogue, feel free to record your version!

Children's Stories
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Sci-Fi short story
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[wildemoose]

I'm going to move this to Book Suggestions--maybe someone will find a clearly PD text and then it can either be moved back or restarted.