I'm now imagining staged readings of public domain literature as SFC events and librivoxathons.
It'll be awesome! Thanks, Richard On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Neville Bezzina <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alan; this is a very good idea. Thanks for suggesting it and bringing it > to general attention. I used to be President of the Department of English > Students Association a few months back so what the fledgling Malta shall be > doing is work with the DESA guys to promote this, maybe we'll get some > volunteers :) I'll keep you updated > > On 26 February 2011 14:51, C. Alaric Moore <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Dear wondrous members o' yea olde Free Culture, >> >> So I was clicking around in the Libre project's list o' things, and found >> the Gutenberg E-book (I call them Fre-ebooks and suggest you do too) project >> is also in association with LibriVox. Librivox, as the link says, attempts >> to make written material available in Audio format under a Creative Commons >> un-license (more fun terminology, I've been reading too much Orwell). >> >> From what I understand these two organizations have an iPhone app that I >> was introduced to (it's called Gutenberg), and blatantly the voices are >> pretty terrible; four books were read by a child (as sweet as it sounds it >> really detracts from the story when the reader asks how to say a word) and a >> number of them by this (albeit awesome) very Texan sounding man. >> >> The reason I am telling you all about this may already be obvious, we >> should all totally volunteer to read some books, or tell our friends that >> are good at doing different voices and reading out loud that they could do >> this. ("Hey [awesome friend], have you heard of this? Well you should, >> because you could rock this and be an even awesomer person because of >> it!") >> >> Well, that's all I have to say really. I hope you all have good >> days/nights/weekends. I'm off to read some books out loud. >> -- >> Respectfully, >> Clarissa Alaric Moore >> Chemistry and Biochemistry >> University of Oklahoma >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
