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<http://libreprojects.net/>, > and found the Gutenberg E-book <http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page>(I > call them Fre-ebooks and suggest you do too) project is also in > association with LibriVox <http://librivox.org/about-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<http://librivox.org/volunteer-for-librivox/>, > 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 > >
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