COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 098 - jo

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TaLampasona
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https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf098_ion_plato_tl_128kb.mp3
Below is a list of the misreads that need correction. When you do your editing, PLEASE GIVE ME THE TIMING OF ALL YOUR CORRECTIONS. PROVIDING ME WITH THE TIMING OF THE EDITS IS A MUST! THANK YOU FOR COMPLYING WITH MY REQUEST.

4:51.5 Text reads: "Then why in this city of Athens, in which men of merit are always being sought after, is he not at once appointed a general?" You said:

"This is why in the city of Athens..."

6:15.5 Text reads "Sense or passion are too much for the 'dry light' of intelligence which mingles with them and becomes discoloured by them."

You said "Sense or purpose..."

6:27 Text reads "The concentration of the mind on a single object, or on a single aspect of human nature, overpowers the orderly perception of the whole."

You said The concentration of the mind on a single subject..."

7:34.0 and again at 7:56 and 8:03. Please check the pronunciation of the word "sophist," which occurs 3 times in in this paragraph. First textural occurrence reads: "In the Protagoras the ancient poets are recognized by Protagoras himself as the original sophists..."
You can check for correct pronunciation here:
translate.Google: https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=de&text=sophist&op=translate

https://www.google.com/search?q=sophist&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS871US871&oq=sophist&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.2356j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


15.40.5
Text reads: Socrates: "And if you knew the good speaker, you would also know the inferior speakers to be inferior." You said "...to the inferior."

29:10 Text reads: Socrates: "Surely not about things in Homer of which you have no knowledge." You said: "Surely not about things in which Homer of which you have no knowledge?"

32:52 Socrates: "Now would you say that the art of the rhapsode or the art of medicine was better able to judge of the propriety of these lines?" You said: "Now what would you say that the art..."

33:07.5 Text reads: "And when Homer says 'And she descended into the deep like a leaden plummet..." You said "like a laden plummet." "Leaden" in this sentence refers to "lead" the metal, i.e. a lead weight.

34.33.5 Text reads: Socrates: "And there are many such passages in the Iliad also; as for example in the description of the battle near the rampart...


You said: "Are there many such passages..."
Here are my edits with time stamps.

4:51 "Then why in this city of Athens, in which men of merit are always being sought after, is he not at once appointed a general?"

6:14.5 Sense or passion are too much for the 'dry light' of intelligence which mingles with them and becomes discoloured by them."

6.27.5 "The concentration of the mind on a single object"

7:39.5 "In the Protagoras the ancient poets are recognized by Protagoras himself as the original sophists"
7:55.5 "Just as the sophist professes to have all wisdom"
8:02 "even more than the sophist"

15:39 "And if you knew the good speaker, you would also know the inferior speakers to be inferior."

29:08 Surely not about things in Homer of which you have no knowledge."

32:50 Socrates: "Now would you say that the art of the rhapsode or the art of medicine was better able to judge of the propriety of these lines?"

33:07.5 Text reads: "And when Homer says 'And she descended into the deep like a leaden plummet..."

34:31 "And there are many such passages in the Iliad also; as for example in the description of the battle near the rampart...


I am sorry to take so much of your time with the proof listening process, I appreciate the feedback. This recording and editing to me was much easier than the first reading I did, so I am sure in the future I will continue to get better and better. In the future I will proof listen myself so as to hopefully reduce the amount of errors our volunteer listeners have to catch. Thank you for your time in advance!
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Post by Sue Anderson »

TaLampasona wrote: May 13th, 2023, 8:03 am
Here are my edits with time stamps.

4:51 "Then why in this city of Athens, in which men of merit are always being sought after, is he not at once appointed a general?"

6:14.5 Sense or passion are too much for the 'dry light' of intelligence which mingles with them and becomes discoloured by them."

6.27.5 "The concentration of the mind on a single object"

7:39.5 "In the Protagoras the ancient poets are recognized by Protagoras himself as the original sophists"
7:55.5 "Just as the sophist professes to have all wisdom"
8:02 "even more than the sophist"

15:39 "And if you knew the good speaker, you would also know the inferior speakers to be inferior."

29:08 Surely not about things in Homer of which you have no knowledge."

32:50 Socrates: "Now would you say that the art of the rhapsode or the art of medicine was better able to judge of the propriety of these lines?"

33:07.5 Text reads: "And when Homer says 'And she descended into the deep like a leaden plummet..."

34:31 "And there are many such passages in the Iliad also; as for example in the description of the battle near the rampart...


I am sorry to take so much of your time with the proof listening process, I appreciate the feedback. This recording and editing to me was much easier than the first reading I did, so I am sure in the future I will continue to get better and better. In the future I will proof listen myself so as to hopefully reduce the amount of errors our volunteer listeners have to catch. Thank you for your time in advance!
Hi TaLampasona, PL OK! :thumbs: Thanks for the prompt edits and the time stamps! :) You did a marvelous job blending the edits seamlessly into the original recording. Your recording is ready for the LibriVox catalog now.
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Provincetown and Petrified Fish
Constructive criticism sought

2:20
Provincetown and Petrified Fish by Anonymous
from the book Cape Cod Legends [1935] Elisabeth Shoemaker - Editor
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf098_provincetownandpetrifiedfish_sm_128kb.mp3
I scanned this book, obtained copyright clearance from Project Gutenberg (below), and uploaded the images to The Internet Archive.
Link to page images:
https://archive.org/details/cclegends1_images/page/22/mode/2up

Cleared OK Shoemaker, Cape Cod legends
From Copyright Team <*****@pglaf.org>
2023-04-05 6:36 am
Project Gutenberg copyright clearance submission
Title: Cape Cod legends
Author1: Elisabeth Shoemaker
Status: Cleared OK
Clearance OK key=20230401101312
Thanks!
Steve
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https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf098_broomcorn_martin_sa_128kb.mp3

The Story of Broomcorn
by Arthur Martin
no publication date
https://archive.org/details/storyofbroomcorn00mart/page/n19/mode/2up

20:25

This is a quirky bit of agricultural history from my adopted home state, Illinois. Back in the 1860's, central Illinois was the leading broomcorn producer in the U.S. When this booklet was written [there is no publication date, but probably in the early 1950's], Arcola, Illinois was the self-denominated "Broomcorn capital of America." By the late 1960's, broomcorn production had virtually ceased in Illinois [per Univ. of Wisconsin].

Arthur Martin, who wrote this pamphlet, was an interesting character. In 1939, he began "improving" the acreage around his home in Arcola with "garden features" like sheds made of glass bottles. People out for a Sunday drive came to stare, and Martin started charging admission to his property, which he named Rockome. https://www.roadarch.com/05/10/rocko9.jpg After Martin sold the land in the late 1950's, it morphed, under new ownership, into an "Amish theme park," and then, in 2015, became a drive-through zoo: https://aikmanwildlife.com/our-story/ . I've never been there.

~~~~~~ I'm looking for a volunteer to proof listen (PL) this for me, since as the dedicated proof listener (DPL) for the Short Nonfiction Collection (SNF), I can't very well PL my own work. My thanks in advance! Note: the "Dedication" which I read at the beginning is actually printed (within a green slash) at the end of the booklet, as it appears on archive.org.
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plymtuxet wrote: May 14th, 2023, 7:08 am Provincetown and Petrified Fish
Constructive criticism sought

2:20
Provincetown and Petrified Fish by Anonymous
from the book Cape Cod Legends [1935] Elisabeth Shoemaker - Editor
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf098_provincetownandpetrifiedfish_sm_128kb.mp3
I scanned this book, obtained copyright clearance from Project Gutenberg (below), and uploaded the images to The Internet Archive.
Link to page images:
https://archive.org/details/cclegends1_images/page/22/mode/2up

Cleared OK Shoemaker, Cape Cod legends
From Copyright Team <*****@pglaf.org>
2023-04-05 6:36 am
Project Gutenberg copyright clearance submission
Title: Cape Cod legends
Author1: Elisabeth Shoemaker
Status: Cleared OK
Clearance OK key=20230401101312
Thanks!
Steve
Hi Steve, Welcome to the Short Nonfiction Collection! :D Provincetown and Petrified Fish is PL OK! :thumbs: I salute you for the trouble you took to get Cape Cod Legends into the public domain and out there for people to read, record, and enjoy on archive.org! That's the kind of thing that makes LibriVox such a great community of volunteers. You certainly don't need any "construtive criticism" about your recording. It was flawless! :)

I don't know whether it's still true that you can't buy salt cod in Provincetown, Massachusetts, but I know where you can buy it in Illinois --that is at a Chicago-suburbs Italian family-owned group of supermarkets. At the particular supermarket where I shop, the salt cod -- plastic wrapped chunks about a foot square [and looking, to me, like rock salt] is stacked on a rickety wire rack just across from the dried fruit and imported candy display. This store has just recently replaced its shopping carts with new behemoths, hard to maneuver in narrow spaces. Not long ago, I was witness to the hapless shopper (thankfully not me), who wheeled past the Australian licorice and hit the fish, splattering the packaged salt cod onto the floor.
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And here is my second contribution for volume 98. No laughing matter. It's by (the) Defoe, and there's an island, otherwise... Hopefully my reading doesn't confuse listeners as to the awful content:

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf098_reviewstatebritishnation01281710_defoe_cc_128kb.mp3
10:36

source: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924060453051&view=1up&seq=85
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DrSpoke wrote: May 31st, 2023, 12:16 pm And here is my second contribution for volume 98. No laughing matter. It's by (the) Defoe, and there's an island, otherwise... Hopefully my reading doesn't confuse listeners as to the awful content:

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf098_reviewstatebritishnation01281710_defoe_cc_128kb.mp3
10:36

source: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924060453051&view=1up&seq=85
Hi DrSpoke,

Thanks for your second contribution to volume 098! :D Defoe's pro-slavery stance in certainly clear in this essay: "...The main argument stands firm--Secure the Trade; let it not be lost to the Nation, let not the colonies loose their supplies of Negroes -- let not the public interest of Britain in trade sink..."

Your reading is PL OK! :thumbs:
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Hi, here's my contribution, my first to an SNF collection! With all the talk of AI and its implications, I thought this sentence was particularly relevant: "The moment a man attempts to tell the truth as he not only thinks but feels it, what he says becomes charged with that man himself."

"Some Thoughts on Reading" by Walter de la Mare.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf098_thoughtsonreading_delamare_pr_128kb.mp3

text: https://archive.org/details/somethoughtsonre00dela/mode/1up

Length: 11:24

Many thanks!
Patrick
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patrickrandall wrote: June 1st, 2023, 8:18 pm Hi, here's my contribution, my first to an SNF collection! With all the talk of AI and its implications, I thought this sentence was particularly relevant: "The moment a man attempts to tell the truth as he not only thinks but feels it, what he says becomes charged with that man himself."

"Some Thoughts on Reading" by Walter de la Mare.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf098_thoughtsonreading_delamare_pr_128kb.mp3

text: https://archive.org/details/somethoughtsonre00dela/mode/1up

Length: 11:24

Many thanks!
Patrick
Hi Patrick,

Welcome to the Short Nonfiction Collection (SNF)! :D Thank you for contributing this intriguing "Some Thoughts on Reading" by Walter de la Mare. Your recording is PL Ok! :thumbs:

I appreciated that you mentioned a sentence from the essay that "spoke to you." In PLing, I try to figure out, if I can, what the "appeal" of a particular text was to the LibriVox reader -- what was the concept, idea, or "facts" that they hoped listeners would "get" by listening to the recording.

And, of course, your quote from de la Mare hits directly on the question of whether AI can ever trully replicate the imaginative soul of human creativity.

I must say that de la Mare and I parted company on the subject of reading speed! He claims to have been reading an article in Mind that he couldn't understand, until he began to read it "faster and faster." ("skimming" maybe?) We've had a few SNF contributions from Mind, a philosophical journal published by Oxford Univ. Press, and which was, in the 1920's a leading exponent of analytic philosophy under the editorship of G.E. Moore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_(journal). I can't imagine that reading the articles in Mind "faster and faster" would have made them clearer to anyone. But who knows.

This was an enjoyable listen for me. Thanks for participating in vol. 098! :D
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Sue Anderson wrote: June 2nd, 2023, 9:46 am
...I must say that de la Mare and I parted company on the subject of reading speed! He claims to have been reading an article in Mind that he couldn't understand, until he began to read it "faster and faster." ("skimming" maybe?) We've had a few SNF contributions from Mind, a philosophical journal published by Oxford Univ. Press, and which was, in the 1920's a leading exponent of analytic philosophy under the editorship of G.E. Moore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_(journal). I can't imagine that reading the articles in Mind "faster and faster" would have made them clearer to anyone. But who knows.
Thanks for your kind words, Sue! I too was not sure what he had in mind with 'faster and faster..." I decided he meant "with more energy and with less "over-thinking" -- an instance of seeing the forest instead of the trees, maybe? Anyway, I wasn't completely convinced! :D

Thanks again,
Patrick
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Hello Sue, I noticed your message in a bottle and I offer my PL for your piece. Let me know if that is ok, particularly considering I've been a few times advised not to contribute, either reading or PL, due to my "outside of USA" (copyright parameters) status!
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Post by Sue Anderson »

DrSpoke wrote: June 3rd, 2023, 1:04 am Hello Sue, I noticed your message in a bottle and I offer my PL for your piece. Let me know if that is ok, particularly considering I've been a few times advised not to contribute, either reading or PL, due to my "outside of USA" (copyright parameters) status!
Hi DrSpoke, Your PL offer is gratefully accepted! :9: You'll see why I read about broom corn when you see my cover for vol. 098, which features a barn, a horse, a shovel, and some brooms leaning against the wall... A nostalgic view of rural life that could be anywhere in the world...

Cheers,
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Sue Anderson wrote: June 3rd, 2023, 3:35 am A nostalgic view of rural life that could be anywhere in the world...
I understand now.
That was really interesting, and flawlessly read. It took me to places known and unknown.
If I trust my ears it is absolutely PL ok, but the checker highlights a high level of Background Noise (51.7 dB on a Volume of 91.6 dB)! Yet it sounds very clear and clean to me; maybe you know where the problem actually is..
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Post by Sue Anderson »

DrSpoke wrote: June 3rd, 2023, 6:51 am
Sue Anderson wrote: June 3rd, 2023, 3:35 am A nostalgic view of rural life that could be anywhere in the world...
I understand now.
That was really interesting, and flawlessly read. It took me to places known and unknown.
If I trust my ears it is absolutely PL ok, but the checker highlights a high level of Background Noise (51.7 dB on a Volume of 91.6 dB)! Yet it sounds very clear and clean to me; maybe you know where the problem actually is..
Hi DrSpoke, Thanks for the PL! :D I guess, for the record, I should say that the version of the Checker App on my computer (which governs the "rules" of the SNF, sort of...) is set to "Gentle" Validation and checks only that the file names and technical specifications required by LibriVox are correct.
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Title: An Abstract of Mr Locke's Essay on Human Understanding
Author: Jeffrey Gilbert
Audio file link: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf098_abstractofmrlockesessay_gilbert_pt_128kb.mp3
Text link: https://archive.org/details/anabstractmrloc00lockgoog
Duration: 34:21
Reader name: Peter Tucker
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