Would their be a way that we as patrons of nls services could work to bring these books back again? I am also concerned that we will lose some of our present narators Will we be hearing real people or will we be hearing computer voices?
Ritawhen nls goes to didgital format.----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Lewellen" <klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Oh my goodness! Haynes read the hobbit before asky? I would do just about anything to hear that!anne is correct his mastery of Dickens lives on in my soul and I am sure a lot of others. The thing is, with all of the restoration producers out there, recovering these master's would not be that costly. In fact I can just imagine someone like Barnes and Nobel loving to donate grant money for it given both the talent and the richness of the reading themselves. national public radio has a set of studios for preserving audio from mater tapes , I have radio associates who use them all of the time for goodness sake. There was all this discussion at the library of congress regarding preserving news and other radio history, given some of this material ishistory too, why not fight to keep it?Pooh bureaucrats! Karen On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, duane iverson wrote:To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.Dear Anne:I'd say Dido's, but as there was no profanity it doesn't begin to cover my feelings on the matter. I actually asked the question at an NFB convention as to why NLS was paying to rerecord these books and not reclaiming them. The masters still exist in many cases. I talked to the aFB president once. Anyway Frank Kurt Silky lived up to his middle name. Speaking of Allan Haynes, he originally read The Hobbit. Now Bob Askee did a good job, but. . . I taped Poul Anderson's wonderful book A Mid Summer Tempest read by Allan Haynes. This book was a parallel history in which all the Shakespeare plays were true.f f ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Parsons" <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:25 AMSubject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: NLS Narrators (was: Re: Re: comments on Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection. . .)Hi all, Original message: > I hate to bring up the thought, but if they were in > old-time radio shows, it my be that Father Time had > gotten rid of them, not NLS. smile Actually, G. Cindy, one of the griefs which we who are old enough toremember is the loss of so many of these books that were recorded for the blind. We find it interesting, and indeed troubling, that one can collect all the OTR programs one would ever want to collect and yet, only a few of the old master recordings are available for duplication today. LOC claimslack of funding, and perhaps they are right. Some of us, indeed oneperson I know of in California has personally offered to reclaim these old master recordings, but to my knowledge, he has not been given the time ofday by the powers that be at Library of Congress.Oh, G. Cindy, when you can listen to The Shadow and Amos and Andy at any darn time you want, and yet, the complete set of Charles Dickens read byAlan Haines is thrown on the garbage heap because it is too costly to reclaim it, this makes me actually weep in frustration! Alan Haines, a radio personality and actor from New York City was Welsh. He could do*all* the regional accents of England, all of them, G. Cindy. His reading of How Green Was My Valley is a treasure, and if I find it *anywhere* at all, I want it, I want it so bad I can taste it! All those singing welshvoices with their wonderful accents. A treasure, a real treasure lostbecause some stupid sighted bureaucrat decided it wasn't worth keeping! I have here, my own personal recording of Haines reading The Dean's watch.I treasure it! I have Scourby reading Watership Down.NLS has seen fit to have The Robe, remember my mentioning it? They have seen fit to have some little bimbo with a tiny squeaky voice reading this book! It is *not* right! They miscast this reading! I am sure that this lady, whomever she is, is not a bimbo, but she sounds like one. Her voice is high and it is tiny and it is squeaky. Dale Carter might have done a good job with The Robe, but not this bimbo! I can just hear her giggling in the background. I had to send the book back to the library. I couldn'tread it, just couldn't! Her reading is awful, just terrible, and they threw out the Blackwell or Donally reading that made that book *live*! Oh, it's not a trivial complaint, not a trivial complaint at all! I better stop now, or I'll fill up my whole computer with this rant. Ann P. -- Ann K. 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