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LIBRIVOX AUDIOBOOK SAMPLES/PREVIEWS: What to put in them and how to provide links

GUIDELINES ON WHAT TO INCLUDE IN YOUR LIBRIVOX AUDIOBOOK SAMPLE

To ensure project-wide uniformity, please stick closely to these simple guidelines. Update: 01 Jan 08

1. Straightforwardly identify the book & author.
2. Read the summary already provided by the BC/MC or write a brief one that gives the listener some idea of what the book is about and/or how it fits into the context of books of its kind. Identify its category/genre.
3. Announce: "Here's a sample, from chapter 000, as read by [reader as listed in the catalog chapter queue.]
4. 2-3 second fade up, into a 30-45 second sample.
5. End sample with a 2-3 second fade out —with no additional comment(s).
6. Please: no music, sound effects, other audio, references to other books or persons, etc.


Audiobook Samples

As of 12 Feb 2008, please post your samples in the Audio Sample Forum Thread - Thanks

F Reuben Sachs Amy Levy Adrian Praetzellis Sample LV Cat page Jan 08
LOE La femme de trente ans Honoré de Balzac Ezwa Sample LV Cat Page Jan 08
NF Fast in the Ice R. M. Ballantyne Esther Sample LV Cat Page Jan 08
F The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace J. M. Smallheer Sample LV Cat page Jan 08
NF The Mind and the Brain Alfred Binet Carl Manchester Sample LV Cat page Jan 08
F Famous Modern Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborogh, compiler Anna Simon Sample LV Cat page Jan 08
F The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas Kevin Kivikko Sample LV Cat page Jan 08
C Nine Unlikely Tales for Children E. Nesbit Cori Samuel Sample LV Cat page Jan 08
NF Canyons of the Colorado John Wesley Powell Kevin McAsh Sample LV Cat Page Dec 07
√ F God’s Country — And the Woman James Oliver Curwood Esther Sample LV Cat Page Dec 07
C A Short History of the United States Edward Channing Allyson Hester Sample LV Cat Page Nov 07
√ NF Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke A. Ledesma Esther & Laurie Anne Walden Sample LV Cat Page Nov 07
√ NF History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol II Edward Gibbon Panta Rhei Sample LV Cat Page Dec 07
√ F Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare Edith Nesbit Denny Sayers Sample LV Cat Page Dec 07
√ NF The Life of Charlemagne Einhard Lizzie Driver Sample LV Cat Page Dec 07
√ NF Who Was Who: 5000 BC to 1914 Irwin L. Gordon Various Sample LV Cat Page Dec 07
√ RP Hurlbut's Story of the Bible Jessie Lyman Hurlbut Esther, Eric Ray & Laura Caldwell Sample LVCatPt.1 LVCatPt.2 Dec 07
√ NF Chronicles of Canada Vol 8: The Great Fortress: A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 William Wood Esther, Jodi Krangle, Kim S Sample LV Cat Page Dec 07
√ LOE Fables de La Fontaine, livre quatrième (Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, book 4) Jean de La Fontaine Various (13 readers listed on IA's page) Sample LV Cat Page Dec 07
√ LOE Le pays des fourrures (The Fur Country) Jules Verne Claire Dyard & Bernard Sample LV Cat Page Dec 07
Podcast 007 November 2007
LOE Les mille et une nuits (1001 nights) Anonymous, translated by Antoine Galland Various (14 readers listed on IA's page) Sample LV Cat Page Nov 07
Podcast 006 October 2007
NF In the Field (1914-1915) Marcel Dupont kayray Sample LV Cat Page Oct 07
F Fanny Herself Edna Ferber J. M. Smallheer Sample LV Cat Page Oct 07
LOE Tartarin de Tarascon (Tartarin of Tarascon) Alphonse Daudet Ezwa Sample LV Cat Page Sep 07
LOE Fables de La Fontaine, livre 6 (Fables of Jean de la Fontaine, book 6) Jean de La Fontaine Jean Lambert See this post LV Cat Page Sep 07
F The Old Man in the Corner Baroness Orczy J. M. Smallheer Sample LV Cat Page July 07
F The Circular Staircase Mary Roberts Rinehart Various Sample LV Cat Page June 07
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