That's a problem with many of the old recordings. It's horrible to have a
book reissued and have it be by a new reader. I often reread books, and
many of those older books have either never been reissued or have been but
are read by new people. I've been told it's probably because the original
masters weren't in good enough shape for reissuing. So sad.
Sherry
-----Original Message-----
From: Amy Goldring Tajalli [mailto:agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:41 AM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: a fun topic, summer chunksters
Amen. I wish the Lib. of Congress felt the way we do. They are slowly
replacing his recordings with newer ones instead of remastering. Now to
get
his recordings one has to buy them. Ditto his recordings of the various
versions of the Old and New Testaments. Perhaps if a lot of us wrote LoC
[or is it NLS?] they might reconsider before all of his recordings are
gone.
Do you know where to write?
Amy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:48 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: a fun topic, summer chunksters
Alexander Skorby is an awesome narrator, I loved his narration of Homor's
The Oddessy.
Shelley L. Rhodes M.A., VRT, CTVI
and Judson, guiding golden
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Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Alumni Association Board
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More than Any other time, When i hold a beloved book in my hand, my
limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
- Helen Keller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amy Goldring Tajalli" <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 6:01 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: a fun topic, summer chunksters
A perfect long read or reread for the summer [except I just finished it]
would be:
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables at 1260 but someone would need to scan
[preferably] the Modern Library edition translated by Charles Wilbur.
All
the other easily available editions, including the one in Bookshare, are
edited and abridged [badly and only 840 pp].
Tolstoy's War and Peace in the Bookshare edition is 1680 pp which seems a
little short but I don't know the translator or Scanner. If someone
wants
to try it I would be interested in more information. [if it had not been
for
Alexander Scourby reading it to me when I first started using talking
books
I might never have finished it. I did not when I had enough sight to read
it
that way.]
Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago is only 638 page and if you are not
already familiar with 20 th century Russian History, and some 18th, it
may
seem a lot longer.
I hope someone will scan volumes 2 and 3 of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag. They
are
worth the effort both to scan and to read. All 3 together probably total
close to 2000 pages.
----- Original Message -----
From: Amber Wallenstein
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 4:47 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] a fun topic, summer chunksters
I posted this to a few book groups, and am interested to see what
chunksters you all will be reading this summer.... And if anyone can give
me
names of other long books that are on bookshare,that you loved, that
would
be great too.
Books I want to read this summer include:
* The Terror by Dan Simmons at a whopping 769 pages
* the new Harry Potter book by J. K. Rowling at a much to short 784
pages,
which I plan to savor
* A Suitable Boy byVikram Seth at a jaw-dropping 1349 pages
* The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett at 973 pages
* Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King by
J
R R Tolkien at a combined1635 pages
and short books thrown in there for good measure... The total for these
chunkster books is drum-roll.... 5510 pages. Whew! I better get busy,then
yes?
I'll update as the summer progresses!
Amber
Book blog:
http://community.livejournal.com/book_cuddler/
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have
consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children.
I
give
you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
John Adams
E-Mail: amber.wallens@xxxxxxxxx
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