Target completion date: End of February, 2006
Dear Metacoordinator: I think we will have to include something like this in the catalogue.
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Gutenberg e-text
html: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36/36-h/36-h.htm
text: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36/36.txt
pdf: http://www.moebius.mynetcologne.de/map/war_of_the_worlds.pdf (~ 500kb, gutenberg made)
pdf: http://www.moebius.mynetcologne.de/map/h.g.wells_-_war_of_the_worlds.pdf (~ 2,7 mb, selfmade, well printable)
Division into parts
Claim away part-numbers!
BOOK ONE - The comming of the martians
# part number in blue
01 -- Chapter 01 -- Stephan The Eve of the War
02 -- Chapter 02 -- tis The Falling Star
03 -- Chapter 03 -- Peter On Horsell Common
04 -- Chapter 04 -- pdxjmorris The Cylinder Unscrews
05 -- Chapter 05 -- Peter The Heat-Ray
06 -- Chapter 06 -- Kara The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road
07 -- Chapter 07 -- Kara How I Reached Home
08 -- Chapter 08 -- dragonkingme Friday Night
09 -- Chapter 09 -- dragonkingme The Fighting Begins
10 -- Chapter 10 -- Stephan In the Storm
11 -- Chapter 11 -- grayt At the Window
12 -- Chapter 12 -- Stephan What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton
13 -- Chapter 13 -- tis How I Fell in with the Curate
14 -- Chapter 14 -- Stephan In London
15 -- Chapter 15 -- kri What Had Happened in Surrey
16 -- Chapter 16 -- ChipDoc The Exodus from London
17 -- Chapter 17 -- ChipDoc The "Thunder Child"
BOOK TWO - The Earth under the Martians
# part number in blue
18 -- Chapter 01 -- drkpking Under Foot
19 -- Chapter 02 -- J. Crevier What We Saw from the Ruined House
20 -- Chapter 03 -- Stephan The Days of Imprisonment
21 -- Chapter 04 -- J. Crevier The Death of the Curate
22 -- Chapter 05 -- Peter The Stillness
23 -- Chapter 06 -- Peter The Work of Fifteen Days
24 -- Chapter 07 -- ChipDoc The Man on Putney Hill
25 -- Chapter 08 -- Kara Dead London
26 -- Chapter 09 -- Peter Wreckage
27 -- Chapter 10 -- Stephan The Epilogue
Save files as
128 kpbs MP3, 44100kHz
war_of_the_worlds_#_wells.mp3 , all lower-case, where # is your part (!) number.
ID3 V2 tag (please mind upper and lower case)
Track Number: #
Title: War of the Worlds - Book [1 or 2] - Chapter [X]
Artist: H. G. Wells
Album: War of the Worlds
Year: 2006
Comment: (If you want) Recorded by [your name]
Transfer of files
Files can either be posted here in the forum (link to your webspace) or emailed to my unlimited email-account: moebius AT anymotion DOT de
I'll need the following informations from you, the moment you send me something:
- your name as you want it to appear in the LibriVox catalog,
- your webpage url (if applicable)
Pease remember to check this thread every once in a while for updates!
Please check the Recording Notes thread before recording:
http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6427#6430
If this is your first recording, you'll also find this useful:
http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/NewbieGuideToRecording
INTRO
- "This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox.org"
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Say:
"War of the Worlds, by H.G.Wells, Book [1 or 2], Chapter [chapter number]"
- At the end of the chapter, say:
"End of chapter [Chapter number]" - At the end of the book, say:
"End of War of the Worlds - Book [1 or 2] "
