[bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: NLS Narrators (was: Re: Re: comments on Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection. . .)

  • From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:35:05 -0500

For those of us who love old time radio shows, occasionally you'll run across one of these readers in one of the dramas. I've heard Alexander Scourby in x-1, Robert Donnoley and Norman Rose in suspense.
When you hear one of these guys you think "hey, I know him", and it does seem like these readers were personal friends of ours. 

I wish NLS wouldn't be so hasty in getting rid of those classic readers.
----- Original Message ----- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
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One of my fondest childhood memories is listening to Burt Blackwell's wonderful reading of Voyages of Dr. Doolittle when I was around ten. And then a few years later, his tremendously great reading of Stranger in a Strange Land.
This is a sad tangent for me, though, as it makes me think of how so much of what was recorded by those voices is no longer available. 

Evan
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How could I forget Ralph Bell. He always sounded so sinister.
How about Paul Clark reading the reader's digest,
and Burt Blackwell reading Poe's complete short stories (complete with the correct French). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx> 
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Protection. . .


Leon Janning the guy with a sneer in his voice,
who read the book about Babe Ruth, "babe, the legend comes to life," could 
actually hear him wheze, but fantastic read.
Gordon Gould, who always sounded so serious.
acts too, in "star wars," on NPR, in "the empire strikes back," as one of 
the drivers of the walkers.
Mitzi Friedlander, who sounded like everyone's mother, then everyone's
grandmother.
read all of the Sue Grafton books, and gradually actually would say the F 
word. :) Grandma, shouldn't talk like that?
And, Alexander Scourby, who could read anything and make it sound beautiful. 
amen to that, even gentle satire like "the mallot diaries," from 1965.
Robert Donley, could do about anything, Westerns, SF, fantastic.
How about Ralph Bell doing Nero Wolf, or Carl Weber, also, doing Nero Wolf? 
:) Carl Weber reading "Hotel," by Arthur Hailey, which I have.
But, we're straying off topic for this list, sorry!

Curtis Delzer
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Obviously you're a science fiction fan.  No one picked up a sense of
amazement like Robert Donley, but we are both dating ourselves by knowing 
about him.  Many of those old (in time, not age) NLS readers were
something special. ----- source message -----
from: "duane iverson" <diverson@xxxxxxxxxx>
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date: 2008/03/09 18:15:43
subject: [bookshare-discuss] comments on  Publishers Phase Out Piracy
Protection. . .
Beginning in late 1999, Jim Baen began selling books on the Webscription service of Baen Books. He never used DRM, didn't believe in it, sold the books in a half a dozen formats usable to anyone who had a computer with 
a word processor even if the only thing you had was internet explorer.
Eric Flint has been arguing in every issue of the online Science Fiction Magazine Jim Baen's Universe against Mindless copyright restrictions and 
DRM.
Messer's Baen and Flint paved the way. it's nice to see other publishers slowly coming around to their way of thinking. My guess is that dropping 
DRM will actually increase the sale of audio books over what it would
have been with DRM left in place.
My guess also is that many sighted audio book listeners will become
devotees of an audio book reader and may began buying books as much by
who reads the book as who wrote it.
How many of us old blind guys would order any book read by Robert donley 
just because Mr. Donley was such a grate reader.
But as DRM dies, I hope it dies: And more and more books become available 
in Blind Friendly Formats we have Jim Baen to thank probably more then
anyone out side the Blindness Community.
Old Jim did it for the money. of course that's why Bell invented the
Telephone and Edison invented the record player.

Sincerely Yours:
Duane Iverson

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