{"id":19986,"date":"2019-03-23T09:08:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T14:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=19986"},"modified":"2019-03-23T09:08:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T14:08:01","slug":"recording-the-silent-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2019\/03\/23\/recording-the-silent-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Recording the silent P"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

So, Your Humble Blogger mentioned the possibility that Leave it to Psmith<\/cite> would be a read-aloud book for the household, and indeed it was. And as Gentle Reader Jacob pointed out<\/a>, Leave it to Psmith<\/cite> is no longer under copyright protection, which means that I can, in theory, broadcast a recording of myself reading it aloud to my household.\r\n

And so I shall. Not immediately\u2014there is one section that I evidently didn't save the file for, and a couple of other bits and bobs of things to be done, and with one thing and another I certainly wouldn't expect to post anything within a week at the very least, and probably more like a month. But it will happen.\r\n

I do have a few comments and questions before I begin posting the files, though. I have never done anything like this before, here on this Tohu Bohu or elsewhere, and I don\u2019t listen to podcasts or any such things myself, so I don\u2019t know how people who might be interested in listening to this guff would prefer to scarf up the digital decibels. I don\u2019t even have a sense of what the options are. So the question: how should I post this stuff<\/i>? It\u2019s about eight and a half hours, altogether, currently broken in to some forty-odd files of varying lengths, from entire chapters of twenty minutes or so to individual parts of a few pages and a few minutes in length.\r\n

The book itself has fourteen chapters, which are mostly divided into smaller sections. I could give each chapter an individual post, including a single file of the entire chapter (of however many sections). Some of those would be very long files\u2014the first chapter is almost an hour in itself, and I think there are other chapters that would be longer than that. Or I could give each chapter a post, including between one and six files for each section, depending of course on how many sections that chapter has. That would make a lot of sense to me, but would mean extra clicking for y\u2019all. I suppose I could do both within the post, and y\u2019all could choose. Or I could just post each section in their own individual posts, since it\u2019s not as if it costs more to add a few more posts. Or I could presumably sling up the whole thing as a single post, with links to all the files for y\u2019all to download as you like. Or I could do it as eight more-or-less hour long chunks, ready to be burned to CD and played in a car that has a CD-player, like mine does. What would y\u2019all like?\r\n

Alternately\u2014Is this the right place for sharing this? Is there some other platform that would be more convenient, or just generally better? I wouldn\u2019t object to \r\n

As for the recordings themselves\u2014I want to emphasize that these are not professional recordings. It\u2019s me, reading to my family, but with a microphone. I didn\u2019t do second-takes. If I stumble over a passage, it\u2019s in the recording. If I crack up, it\u2019s in the recording. If someone else in the room laughs, it\u2019s in the recording. If the Youngest Member asks a question, or the Perfect Non-Reader of this blog expostulates, it\u2019s probably audible in the background, and if I respond, I haven\u2019t edited it out. I didn\u2019t do a lot of that, but it\u2019s there. I don\u2019t want anyone to start listening under the impression it\u2019s a flawless recording that is ready to go up on Audible. I think it\u2019s a good<\/i> reading, and a lot of fun, and I think the voices largely come off pretty well, albeit some are better than others, but it\u2019s just a guy reading to his household.\r\n

If y\u2019all want the real YHB household experience, I\u2019d post in chunks of about twenty minutes or so, five or six evenings a week, lasting about a month or so. And there would be tea, of course.\r\n

For what it\u2019s worth, here\u2019s an outtake, or a preview, or something like that.\r\n

https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/TASCAM_0112.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\r\n

Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I>
-Vardibidian.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger announces a new project and seeks advice, support and consultation.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-litchrachoor","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19988,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19986\/revisions\/19988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}