volunteer on librivox.org

Just recorded Frost’s Fire and Ice for the weekly short poetry. Woohoo.

Honestly, my single greatest barrier to participation with this is that they organize the entire project through a forum system, and forums make my teeth itch.

This is great! I’m coming up with short works I can record. LibriVox gets its texts to turn audio mainly from Project Gutenberg. I wonder why there isn’t any Kierkegaard on there?

I want to do this with a couple of college friends (we did the great books), perhaps assigning chapters of a longer book.

It’s great fun. Don’t hesitate to dive right in. You don’t have to be a pro, just read, record and edit out your worst mistakes.

Do it once and you’ll be hooked. I’ve recorded 31 chapters in 16 books, characters in 2 plays, the Constitution of the United States, and some poetry. It’s hard to stop!

and yet I’m completely nervous about actually throwing my hat in the ring. I can just see… “Wow, we really liked your chapter, but, um, we lost your tape… the cat spilled wine on it… “

Maybe I’ll start by sneaking in something obscure that no one will listen to, anyway.