This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/now-we-are-six-by-a-a-milne/
Volunteers outside the USA: A. A. Milne died in 1956. This person's work may still be protected by copyright in countries where copyright duration is determined by the author's death date. In Europe this is 70 years; in Canada it is 70 years for authors who died after 1971; and in Australia it is 70 years for authors who died after 1955.
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70516A second book of children's poetry by A. A. Milne, author of Winnie-the-Pooh: "We have been nearly three years writing this book. We began it when we were very young ... and now we are six. So, of course, bits of it seem rather baby-ish to us, almost as if they had slipped out of some other book by mistake. On page whatever-it-is there is a thing which is simply three-ish, and when we read it to ourselves just now we said, "Well, well, well," and turned over rather quickly. So we want you to know that the name of the book doesn't mean that this is us being six all the time, but that it is about as far as we've got at present, and we half think of stopping there.
P.S.—Pooh wants us to say that he thought it was a different book; and he hopes you won't mind, but he walked through it one day, looking for his friend Piglet, and sat down on some of the pages by mistake." From the Introduction.
(Summary by A. A. Milne)
Target completion date: 2023-07-31
Prooflistening level: Standard
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[*]Project Code: 4Im0FQyU
[*]Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._A._Milne (A. A. Milne)
[*]Link to title on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_We_Are_Six
[*]Number of sections (files) this project will have: 36
[*]Does the project have an introduction or preface: Yes
[*]Original publication date (if known): 1927
[*]If you are a new volunteer, how would you like your name (or pseudonym) credited in the catalog?
[*]Do you have a URL you would like associated with your name?:
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Genres for the project: Poetry/Single author
Keywords that describe the book: humorous children's verse
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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.
For the first section, say:
For the second and subsequent sections, use the shortened intro:Section # of Now We Are Six, by A. A. Milne. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org. Read by Winnifred Assmann. Now We Are Six, by A. A. Milne. Section Title.
End of recording:Section # of Now We Are Six, by A. A. Milne. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Section Title.
Say:
If you are recording the final section of the book, add:End of Section Title.
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.End of Now We Are Six, by A. A. Milne.
Filename: nowwearesix_##_milne_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. nowwearesix_01_milne_128kb.mp3)
Upload to the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
MC to select: Annise
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.
