Thanks Kent! Here’s a great place to get ahold of Paine’s “Boys Life of MT” https://archive.org/details/boys_life_of_twain_jg_0810_librivox And as for the COLOSSAL ABP bio .... It’s already started!!! I know it’s huge... but it will be divided up, as Paine divided it... and so, should be digestible, or at least consumable, given time and determination! I’m planning on learning A LOT! :-) -j John Greenman 207-974-9911 > On Feb 26, 2018, at 8:56 PM, Kent Rasmussen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > John, I'm listening to your recording of Henderson's book as I write this= > . > It sounds very good, and as a long-time audiobook addict I would like to > thank you for taking the trouble to record books. Before you record Paine= > 's > 3-volume biography, however, I'd like to suggest that you instead conside= > r > recording one or more of Paine's shorter works, such as A SHORT LIFE OF M= > ARK > TWAIN, THE BOYS' LIFE OF MARK TWAIN, or THE SHIP DWELLERS. I make this > suggestion because Paine's full biography is so long that people would be= > > far more likely to listen to the shorter works. The long biography contai= > ns > about 500,000 words. At a typical reading speed of about 170 words a > minutes, a recording of that work would run about 50 hours. How many peop= > le > would consider investing that much time in listening to it? Not many, I > imagine--even if the book is freely accessible on LibriVox. However, if y= > ou > were to record one or two of Paine's shorter books and get a favorable > response, then it might make more sense to record the long biography late= > r. > > That brings me to a question: I imagine it is possible to listen to Libri= > Vox > books on an iPhone, but HOW does one do that? I listen to books all the t= > ime > that I download from audible.com, but I have no idea how load other books= > > onto my phone. Any tips would be welcome. > > I'll conclude with a comment for forum members not familiar with audioboo= > ks. > In contrast to the professionally recorded books sold by Audible.com and > other companies, LibriVox books are produced by a noncommercial service t= > hat > makes recordings of public domain books freely available to anyone who wa= > nts > to listen to them. Because the books are recorded by amateur volunteers, > their quality varies enormously. Some, frankly are painful to listen to. > John Greenman's recording of Henderson's MARK TWAIN is not in that class.= > I > don't know John and don't even recall hearing his name before now, but fr= > om > what I've listened to from the Henderson book so far, I can confidently s= > ay > he reads with a mature, measured voice that makes listening to the book > pleasurable. If I can figure out how to load the book on my iPhone, I'll > certainly listen to all of it.=20 > > Now a slightly embarrassing confession. I see on the LibriVox website tha= > t > John has already recorded numerous other works by and about Mark > Twain--including Paine's BOYS' LIFE OF MARK TWAIN. So much for the > suggestion I made at the beginning of this note. Moreover, to complete my= > > embarrassment, I'll admit that I've just remembered that I already own a > copy of that recording to which I have not yet listened--primarily becaus= > e > I've got it on a CD and don't know how to load it on my iPhone. This is > another example of how I feel modern technology is passing me by.