Doing plays could be even more fun! On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote:
> yes yes yes. and plays, please. librivox is shockingly free of > almost any multiperson literature. > > this should be a canonical type of scheduled fun; you can figure out > how long it will take and parcel out parts so that people can > familiarize themselves with the language. If you split up the reading > into a few separate segments, people who feel they should redo their > bit can afterwards. > > SJ > who loves a little one-action > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Pharos <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 > 4266 > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > -- Alec Story Cornell University Biological Sciences, Computer Science 2012
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