On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 07:14:35AM +0000, Jon Ingram wrote:
I've been doing some volunteering for Librivox recently[1], and would like to know the best way to submit the end product (human-read versions of PG texts) to PG.
So far, it has been just me posting any form of audio eBook. This is a problem, because I have a serious backlog -- between new audio eBooks, fixing broken computer-generated audio eBooks, and contemporary copyrighted text works along with their fixes/updates, I have a pretty substantial collection of stuff waiting for my personal attention. Probably 50-75 new items, plus fixes/updates for another 30-50. Posting this type of content is a bit of a hassle compared to .txt and .htm files, because some sort of readme.txt or readme.htm needs to be written to accompany the files. For multi-part files, an index.htm would be a better alternative. Then, the ww's regular "makehead10k" program can "wrap" the readme.txt (or whatever) with our header/footer, and all the .mp3 files need to be renamed per our standard convention (such as, eBook # 17555 will have 17555-m/17555-m.mp3 , with variations for multi-part files). Jon, if you're willing to do the preparation by hand (perhaps following some of our earlier models, linked from http://gutenberg.org/audio), I could pre-allocate some eBook #s to use. If you could get me just one .zip with everything pre-configured, it would be very easy for me to upload. Oh, and a standard "posted" email message, too. At least a dozen or so items from literalsystems.org are also ready to be brought in, if anyone is inspired to do these. These audio eBooks are actually very popular, and the human readings often get complimented. (The computer-generated readings are not nearly so popular, but still surprisingly popular.) I just wish there were enough hours in the day for me to work through all of these pending items, or someone else interested enough to take the lead (hint, hint). -- Greg