Source text (please read only from this text!): https://archive.org/details/b33027882/"The following selection of Hymns has been made for the use of persons in great bodily weakness. … The present object is to afford, in large print, a few hymns, which seem most likely to cheer and animate the weak." -Excerpt from the introductory material
The hymns in this book are arranged topically as follows:
PART 1: Hymns suited to the awakened inquirer (Hymns 1-33)
PART 2: Hymns suited to the humble penitent, and rejoicing believer (Hymns 34-85)
PART 3: Hymns suited to seasons of severe suffering, mental or bodily (Hymns 86-129)
PART 4: Hymns suited to the dying Christian (Hymns 130-172)
Supplemental Hymns Adapted to Particular Occasions
IMPORTANT NOTES TO READERS:
* Be sure to number your file names with a total of three digits, since there are more than 99 sections. This means that many sections will need one or more leading zero in the file name. For example, hymn 1 should be numbered 001.
* We will treat this book as a book of poetry, not a book of music. Some of these hymns will be familiar to you, and you will feel the urge to sing them. Resist the urge. I do not intend to check the copyright status of 184 melodies. If you sing your submission, it will not be accepted.
Deadline: Please submit your recording within 2 months of placing your claim. If you cannot complete the recording within this time, please post in the thread to relinquish your claim or to ask the BC for an extension. If your recording is not completed by the deadline, your claim may be reassigned at the BC's discretion.
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Magic Window:
BC Admin
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Genres for the project: Children's Fiction/Poetry
Keywords that describe the book: children's poetry, naughty children
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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.
Say:
(For section numbers 173-184, please ignore the Roman numerals given in the book and use the hymn number given in the MW.)"Hymn [number] of The Invalid's Hymn Book, edited by Harriet Kiernan. Read for LibriVox.org by "your name.""
End of recording:
Say:
If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of hymn. This recording is in the public domain."
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of The Invalid's Hymn Book, edited by Harriet Kiernan."
Filename: invalidshymnbook_###_kiernan_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. invalidshymnbook_001_kiernan_128kb.mp3)
Upload to the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
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MC to select: mightyfelix
Copy and paste the file link generated by the uploader into a new post in this thread along with the file duration (mm:ss). Watch this thread for prooflistening notes.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! Just post in this thread.
I was waffling back and forth on the numbering for a while. The only way I could think of to keep the numbers consistent was to put ALL of the introductory stuff in a section zero, but there's a lot of introduction here, and I didn't really want to jam it all together. I still think that it would be nice to be able to separate out all of the stuff at the beginning, but you're right. It just makes the MW that much more complicated. And claiming, too, which I hadn't thought of. So I went ahead and renumbered the MW according to that scheme and assigned the massive introduction to myself. However, umm.... I didn't think to assign the sections you asked for until AFTER I'd renumbered everything. 
So please make sure that I gave you the ones you wanted!
But, I think this will make things smoother as we go along.