Audiobook Samples
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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 |
