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
