[Colorado Doug]

My only complaint and it is just a nit-pick would be that the volume is a little low. Otherwise, It's remarkably good. I honestly can't follow a plot with a bad reader so I give up quickly. I am certain that I will enjoy this entire book. I wish that I could vocalize my reading as well. If I could, I would try doing a book on Librivox but it would not be fair to anyone that would try to listen.

Thanks again! I am learning a lot.

[ProgressingAmerica]

The low volume is a Librivox requirement. They want the files at a certain decibel level. I think it has to do with keeping in mind people who might be using headphones, and I also think there are requirements on archive.org that are out of Librivox’s control.

If you ever changed your mind about contributing, I would greatly like to have someone that doesn’t do full solo works but just helps me out with a few items on a rare occasion. There is much less recording that way.

[rlmorel]

Thank you for that feedback-the volume is a strange thing to me. You have to record it within specific parameters (between 86dB and 92dB) but I will be damned if can figure out any kind of control over it!

But I think in the future, I will add a step after exporting as an MP3 file, to do a final boost up to the maximum dB.

I’m like you-I listen to a lot of books, and there are some I have never even made it through the first chapter! I try to remember to sample now before I get them...:)

[rlmorel]

Heh, the last book I did “Life and Times of Joseph Warren” was really hard for me to read...it had a whole paragraph of French, another paragraph somewhere of...Latin, and...a song patriots of the Revolution sang to the famous tune of “British Grenadiers”.

The French...I hope to God I never run into a French person (or anyone who knows French) because it was really damn hard. I ran it through a google thing that played it, and I had to write it down phonetically. It was terrible, and I don’t think I did a good job.

I work in medicine, so the Latin part was easier...I can figure out most Latin words.

And the song? I wasn’t going to sing it and just dictate it, but...it sounded so flat and dead just reading it, that I gave it a shot at singing it. That was fun, but I don’t have any illusions about how well it came out, but...I think it is just barely passable! I did kind of enjoy that, because I like the song. It is one of those songs (”British Grenadiers”) that when you hear it, you know it already because you have probably heard it played dozens of times in your life, and it is quite catchy!