Posted on 02/13/2024 6:58:57 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica
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That's the total count as of now. Fantastic!
bkmk
Excellent-thanks for the ping!
BTW, I am about halfway through the Capture of Fort William and Mary...:)
It is pretty interesting to me, as this is within an hour’s drive, and I have been there several times. I always enjoy connecting the history to someplace I see.
Well that’s good! I had hoped you would find some interest with that short little book after you made it a solo. I know I’m looking forward to hearing it.
From what I know, that event is in response to schemes related to arms. It speaks to our struggles today related to the second amendment.
Funny-I am having the same problem reading it that I had with “Life and Times of Joseph Warren”...the syntax of the written English used by the author is off enough that I am tripping up more than I wish I would
I’ll have a better handle on that when I start up again tomorrow night.
BTW...I had a nice moment with respect to Librivox...I was listening to Bill Whittle, Steve Green, and Scott Ott on their “Right Angle” podcast (great respect and enjoyment from all three of them) and they were discussing the subject of cannibalism (some Leftists were obliquely suggesting that humankind should “rethink” the taboo of cannibalism!) and Bill Whittle said that one of his all time favorite short stories was one from Mark Twain titled: “Cannibalism In The Cars” written in 1868 that was a story about a Senator on a train that gets stuck in the snow in the middle of winter out on the prairie fifty miles from civilization.
It sounded very interesting, so I went on YouTube to look for one, and...there were probably 5-10 different versions, many from Librivox.
I listened to one at random, and the voice of the speaker was so unpleasant, I grabbed a different one. I ended up going through 4 or 5 versions, all of which were flawed to my ear in some way or another, background noise, irritating voice patterns, etc., and I decided to see if, in the light of a most recent comparative process, how my recording sounded.
Heh, I was astonished how good in comparison mine sounded. Not quite professional as some I listened to, but compared to those...mine sounded quite good.
I have been hesitant to go in an listen to other recordings, simply because I didn’t want to confront how bad I might sound in comparison, but I was very pleased by the comparison!
Librivox has indeed changed a lot over the years. It was a struggle for me to finish the Federalist Papers, and that was something I was highly motivated to listen to. You could hear frogs in the back ground and all sorts of stuff. I bet the new solo Fed. Papers is much higher quality.
That kind of thing in really old recordings is usually not tolerated so much anymore, and also now that the project is more established there just isn’t the “newness” desperation anymore that there would’ve been in the early years. There’s a much larger community of volunteers, so they don’t have to take anything they can get. Audacity is much improved as well as a free open source audio editor. All these things add in and add up.
A part of me wonders why they don’t try to clean house, but that’s the nature of open source. Nobody can get rid of it. Hence why I’m so motivated to get as much content as I can produced that benefits home schoolers, people who have a love for the Founding, and other things under the umbrella we have here. You completed that Warren book. That thing is now forever. Nobody can get rid of it. which is what we want.
Something I’d like to note that can’t be quantified, is this book from McCarthy - I suspect more people have read the book’s content (because they don’t like audio books) as a result of your reading than probably had read it in the entirety of last year. Basically 20,000 people, is a big number of listeners. But there will be others outside of that 20k. Others who prefer reading, who did see this. They saw it and they thought to themselves “wow I didn’t know that was freely available. I want to read it.” And it didn’t cost them a penny to do the reading.
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