Hi,
Thanks for making this service available everyone.. I am amazed that there are over 10 000 free recordings and they all sounds awesome. Congrats!
I'm very much into self-help books and entrepreneur-related books: managing, hiring, growing a business, growing capital for it, financing, networking and all that jazz.
Have you got any titles of such books that I could be reading?
Thanks
Ioan
Self-help books titles request
You could browse our Self-help section ... that covers a wide range of topics, but there might be a few interesting ones for you. P.T. Barnum's The Art of Money Getting would be fun for starters.
There's honestly no such thing as a stupid question -- but I'm afraid I can't rule out giving a stupid answer : : To Posterity and Beyond!
I meant read them myself in the mic. By my understanding you have 2 categories of people: listeners and readers.
I don't know if there is such a list of books waiting to be read anywhere. I tried finding some in the categories of Readers Wanted, but I couldn't find any title that is related to self-help.
I don't know if there is such a list of books waiting to be read anywhere. I tried finding some in the categories of Readers Wanted, but I couldn't find any title that is related to self-help.
that's the same problem as before: the topics you are indicating in your first post sound very "modern" and if there are books concerned with them, they were likely published after 1923 and are thus not PD in the US, and can thus not be read for LibriVox...
Of course we can't be sure if we don't try locating any
Our usual haunts to find books to read are
http://gutenberg.org
http://archive.org
I am not sure how well a search for "self-help" or any of your keywords will work there, but it's worth a try.
PS: Nice to have you here - welcome to LV!
Of course we can't be sure if we don't try locating any
Our usual haunts to find books to read are
http://gutenberg.org
http://archive.org
I am not sure how well a search for "self-help" or any of your keywords will work there, but it's worth a try.
PS: Nice to have you here - welcome to LV!
Cheers, Ava, aka No One.
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Hi Ioan,
Welcome to LibriVox. If I understood you correctly, you are looking for public domain self-help books that you can read for LV, yes?
I did a couple of searches in Project Gutenberg ...
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=self-help
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=business
and here are a few of the titles that looked as if they may be of interest:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/935 Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6167 Business Hints for Men and Women
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1319 Increasing Human Efficiency in Business
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29673 Creating Capital
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20531 Up To Date Business
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3037 The Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39761 The Knack of Managing
Note, I am not necessarily recommending these, but they may give you a start on finding potential projects. Such books may be dated, but on the other hand many of the principles of 100 years ago can be just as effective today.
Good luck,
Don
Welcome to LibriVox. If I understood you correctly, you are looking for public domain self-help books that you can read for LV, yes?
I did a couple of searches in Project Gutenberg ...
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=self-help
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=business
and here are a few of the titles that looked as if they may be of interest:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/935 Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6167 Business Hints for Men and Women
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1319 Increasing Human Efficiency in Business
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29673 Creating Capital
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20531 Up To Date Business
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3037 The Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39761 The Knack of Managing
Note, I am not necessarily recommending these, but they may give you a start on finding potential projects. Such books may be dated, but on the other hand many of the principles of 100 years ago can be just as effective today.
Good luck,
Don
Thanks for the help!
I will start working on this one: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39761 The Knack of Managing.
How do I make sure no body else from here is going to read the same book ?
Ioan
I will start working on this one: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39761 The Knack of Managing.
How do I make sure no body else from here is going to read the same book ?
Ioan
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Before embarking on a solo:
(1) We do STRONGLY encourage a one-minute test (LINK) to check your technical settings. It's not an audition, but to make sure you're exporting at the correct bit rate, have your recording in mono, etc. It would be a shame to record a whole section, only to have to scrap it and redo it because of some simple setting that is incorrect.
(2) Claim, record, and get OK'd at least one section in a group project. This is to make sure you know what you're getting into. Recording a whole book isn't as easy as it seems. It isn't simply sitting down and recording. There's editing to do - and that often can take up to 5 times as long as recording does. In my experience, a ballpark estimate of 95% of brand new readers who start with a solo end up quitting before finishing. Please test the waters first before jumping in. Not only that, you're basically alone in a solo: you are the coordinator, and unless you have a very friendly DPL, you won't get much encouragement while doing your solo.
(1) We do STRONGLY encourage a one-minute test (LINK) to check your technical settings. It's not an audition, but to make sure you're exporting at the correct bit rate, have your recording in mono, etc. It would be a shame to record a whole section, only to have to scrap it and redo it because of some simple setting that is incorrect.
(2) Claim, record, and get OK'd at least one section in a group project. This is to make sure you know what you're getting into. Recording a whole book isn't as easy as it seems. It isn't simply sitting down and recording. There's editing to do - and that often can take up to 5 times as long as recording does. In my experience, a ballpark estimate of 95% of brand new readers who start with a solo end up quitting before finishing. Please test the waters first before jumping in. Not only that, you're basically alone in a solo: you are the coordinator, and unless you have a very friendly DPL, you won't get much encouragement while doing your solo.
It's very rare for more than one person to be interested in the same book at the same time, so I wouldn't worry about staking your claim before doing your test or geting your feet wet with recording. Also, while generally readers don't bother recording a book that someone else is doing, it's not taboo for them to do their own version. We call it "choice of voice". So if in the 0.1% chance that someone else started the same book, that doesn't mean you can't do it, too.How do I make sure no body else from here is going to read the same book ?