Podcasting

Librivox

Librivox is a volunteer-based site that gets individuals to read chapters from books from Project Gutenberg into MP3s.

You can get a feed of what I’ve recorded for them here.

I have contributed chapters to the following books:

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth, Jules Verne
An International Episode, Henry James
Old Christmas, Washington Irving
Short Poetry 001 – Dulce et decorum, Wilfred Owen
Childhood, Leo Tolstoy
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
Buch der Lieder, Heinrich Heine (not yet complete) (in German)
Maerchen, Gebrueder Grimm (not yet complete) (in German)
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Howard Pyle (not yet complete)
The Island of Doctor Moreau, HG Wells (not yet complete)
The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux (not yet complete)

I have read the following entirely by myself

The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie
The Invisible Man, H G Wells
Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne (to come)
The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan (to come)
How to Speak and Write Postmodern, Prof Steven Katz (to come)

I have promised to read chapters in the following

I am helping to co-ordinate the following projects

My Podcast

Subscribe to Nilespod with this link.

The first episode is here.

The second episode is here.

Troubled Diva explains how to subscribe to them using iTunes here.

Or you could use iPodder.

He also kindly tells you how to make them here. I more or less followed his instructions except that instead of using the mix program he suggested, I used Acoustica MP3 Mixer which is cheaper, and a graphical based utility rather than a playlist based one. It also has an inbuilt sound recording module free from the Windows Sound Recorder limit of 60 seconds.

More about the phenomenon of podcasting on Wikipedia.

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