Thank you for sharing your experiences, I’ve never been there to see for myself, but it is strange that there is a huge lack of WWI history in Japan. There isn’t much of it here in the States either, almost seems like it has been memory-holed. The next big book I want to record is about WWI, but it will be a long time before I can get past short works.
As for the rest, I’m glad you are enjoying this. Over time I have developed a seemingly contradictory affinity for free stuff sourced online, partially because I enjoy (in turn) giving things away that people can use, and partially driven by my own curiosity and need to learn more - limited by money I don’t have or shouldn’t use to buy the next 300 books. Which then runs into time limitations to not sit down and not read them anyways.
The strength of open source though is that these things once put online can never ever go away, not with institutional backing of the sort we have tapped into.
Librivox/Archive.org and backed by packaging up to YouTube as well as direct Wikipedia pointers, that’s why in part they get so huge an amount of hits once released to the general public.
But I will say, with respect to Founders John Langdon and Paul Revere and the rest of the boys who had some role in the scene of capturing the fort, as well as Joseph Warren - you’re doing them all a great honor in giving them their voices back. That and your doing Senator McCarthy’s book. That was a genius item that opens up Librivox to a whole different crowd than would have previously never even known Librivox was there - or only considered Librivox for enjoyment items. Plays, Shakespeare stuff, or other light hearted things.
Two of the books I’m sitting on at LV (both are way past 1923) simply would not exist at all if not directly for your sleuthing about copyright limitations on McCarthy’s work. At least one I suspect you’ll probably take an interest in.
I am always interested!
My next project might not be a Librivox recording, I am thinking of dictating a book written by a friend who is a USMC LTCOL (Ret.) who recounts his experiences when he served in Vietnam...I will enjoy reading it aloud.