A long long time ago, in a land far far away, I went to the Garden of Love--don't know if you remember that. In "Recording our own audio etexts" on this list I suggested that even a badly ennunciating amateur reader might produce audio books that are more pleasing to listen to than the synthesized speech versions that are currently the mainstay of the PG audio book collection. I called for other gutvols to join me in testing out this theory, but the response to that was unfortunately rather timid. If you want to have another chance to participate, now is your chance. A couple of weeks ago somebody started a project called Librivox, which takes Project Gutenberg etexts and lets volunteers record chapters of these books. After a mention on the BoingBoing blog, the project suddenly found itself with loads of volunteers, but of course can always use some more. <http://librivox.blogsome.com> The recordings themselves are in the public domain, and will be posted at the Internet Archive. If any Distributed Proofreaders want to relive the heady gold rush days of the first Slashdotting of DP, now is your chance, as the folks at Librivox still need to expand the site to allow for the grown volunteer base. -- branko collin collin@xs4all.nl