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Post by maddogblues on Oct 26, 2009 21:49:11 GMT -5
The book by Jack London. It is in the public domain and wonderful story. librivox.org/call-of-the-wild-by-jack-london/Enjoy it. I am falling asleep listening to it tonight. We are all wild. Acquaint yourself with wildness. Listen to the book.
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Post by werewolf on Jan 8, 2010 1:11:45 GMT -5
Hi - I love Jack London. Here's the terrific Jack London website, "The Jack London Online Collection": london.sonoma.edu/ww
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Post by maddogblues on Jan 8, 2010 20:28:53 GMT -5
Hi - I love Jack London. Here's the terrific Jack London website, "The Jack London Online Collection": london.sonoma.edu/ww Thanks. Glad to meet you. I listened to the book while at work one night, maybe two nights. Great story, yes he is a fabulous story teller . Jack London (born Jan. 12, 1876, died Nov. 22, 1916) is best known for his books The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf, and a few short stories, such as "To Build a Fire" and "The White Silence." In fact, he was a prolific writer whose fiction explored several regions and their cultures: the Yukon, California, Hawaii, and the Solomon Islands. He experimented with many literary forms, from conventional love stories and dystopias to science fantasy. His noted journalism included war correspondence, boxing stories, and the life of Molokai lepers. A committed socialist, he insisted against editorial pressures to write political essays and insert social criticism in his fiction. He was among the most influential figures of his day, who understood how to create a public persona and use the media to market his self-created image of poor-boy-turned-success. London's great passion was agriculture, and he was well on the way of creating a new model for ranching through his Beauty Ranch when he died of kidney disease at age 40. He left over fifty books of novels, stories, journalism, and essays, many of which have been translated and continue to be read around the world. My grandfather died of kidney disease as well, in his 40's. Hard drinking Irish. What do you think of Mellville?
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Post by werewolf on Jan 10, 2010 23:04:03 GMT -5
To be honest with ya, bro, I've never been able to get into Moby Dick, though I've tried a couple of times. I oughta try again. Say, speakin' of 'bo'ing and that most excellent Christmas story of yours that I just read, have you ever seen Jack London's book about his experiences on the road? It's available on that website, complete with lots of photos, which are actually photos that Jack London staged illustrating his experiences riding the rails and bo'ing around. And here's a hobo website for ya - www.hobo.com/Jimmie Rogers singing "Hobo Bill" in 1930: www.archive.org/details/JimmieRodgersww
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Post by maddogblues on Jan 11, 2010 13:46:52 GMT -5
Haven't seen em no, but I bookmarked the site. quote author=werewolf board=whoisyourfavorite thread=380 post=1611 time=1263182643]To be honest with ya, bro, I've never been able to get into Moby Dick, though I've tried a couple of times. I oughta try again. Say, speakin' of 'bo'ing and that most excellent Christmas story of yours that I just read, have you ever seen Jack London's book about his experiences on the road? It's available on that website, complete with lots of photos, which are actually photos that Jack London staged illustrating his experiences riding the rails and bo'ing around. And here's a hobo website for ya - www.hobo.com/Jimmie Rogers singing "Hobo Bill" in 1930: www.archive.org/details/JimmieRodgersww [/quote]
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Post by werewolf on Jan 14, 2010 13:02:59 GMT -5
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Post by maddogblues on Jan 14, 2010 22:18:55 GMT -5
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Post by werewolf on Jan 15, 2010 7:05:16 GMT -5
I discovered Libravox a while back and scouted around. Many great books, all free, all read by amateur volunteer readers, some good, some not so good. Another great internet resource!
After some experimentation I figured out how to download a few books onto a CD or flash drive to play in my vehicle whilst driving. Can you tell me what is the neatest way to download them? Maybe they have instructions there someplace, but as they say, only as an absolute last resort, read the instructions!
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Post by Freedom on Jan 15, 2010 8:43:49 GMT -5
I discovered Libravox a while back and scouted around. Many great books, all free, all read by amateur volunteer readers, some good, some not so good. Another great internet resource! After some experimentation I figured out how to download a few books onto a CD or flash drive to play in my vehicle whilst driving. Can you tell me what is the neatest way to download them? Maybe they have instructions there someplace, but as they say, only as an absolute last resort, read the instructions! ww Just downloaded "call of the wild", my estimate is 8 hours worth of Audio crunched down to 52MB in a Zip file. How do they do it? I found the easiest way to download, is to unzip through "IZArc">> locate file >> add to burn "media player..etc>>burn to disc. That is about 10 cd-r worth. ....or to save on disc, a free program called "CD Burner XP Pro"(been using it for 5-6 years) will allow to burn on one CD-R in a different format (mp3?)
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Post by werewolf on Jan 15, 2010 12:07:10 GMT -5
I discovered Libravox a while back and scouted around. Many great books, all free, all read by amateur volunteer readers, some good, some not so good. Another great internet resource! After some experimentation I figured out how to download a few books onto a CD or flash drive to play in my vehicle whilst driving. Can you tell me what is the neatest way to download them? Maybe they have instructions there someplace, but as they say, only as an absolute last resort, read the instructions! ww Just downloaded "call of the wild", my estimate is 8 hours worth of Audio crunched down to 52MB in a Zip file. How do they do it? I found the easiest way to download, is to unzip through "IZArc">> locate file >> add to burn "media player..etc>>burn to disc. That is about 10 cd-r worth. ....or to save on disc, a free program called "CD Burner XP Pro"(been using it for 5-6 years) will allow to burn on one CD-R in a different format (mp3?) Thanks. I'll check out those programs. What I did was downloaded the books in Zip file, and then opened up the zip, and then used a media creating program (forget which of mine I used) to save it to CD (where did I put that CD, anyway?). The most tiresome aspect was that I had to send each chapter to the CD separately, one at a time. Could I do it all in one step with your program? Maybe I could use a Firefox add on to do it more easily, like "Downthemall" or "Dta Oneclick", but I don't know. I'm not very experienced in doing this sort of thing.
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Post by Freedom on Jan 15, 2010 12:26:38 GMT -5
Just downloaded "call of the wild", my estimate is 8 hours worth of Audio crunched down to 52MB in a Zip file. How do they do it? I found the easiest way to download, is to unzip through "IZArc">> locate file >> add to burn "media player..etc>>burn to disc. That is about 10 cd-r worth. ....or to save on disc, a free program called "CD Burner XP Pro"(been using it for 5-6 years) will allow to burn on one CD-R in a different format (mp3?) Thanks. I'll check out those programs. What I did was downloaded the books in Zip file, and then opened up the zip, and then used a media creating program (forget which of mine I used) to save it to CD (where did I put that CD, anyway?). The most tiresome aspect was that I had to send each chapter to the CD separately, one at a time. Could I do it all in one step with your program? Maybe I could use a Firefox add on to do it more easily, like "Downthemall" or "Dta Oneclick", but I don't know. I'm not very experienced in doing this sort of thing. cdburnerxp.se/This program/software will do it, up to 7-8 hours on a CD-R. Not all cd players will recognize the format, i.e some car cd player and boom box. Make a test copy and try it. To do it in one step, after unzipping the files, copy/paste all the chapters on the "cdburnerxp - pro" > burn. Thats about it. .. IZArc has worked well for me unzipping files. Both those programs are free.
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Post by werewolf on Jan 16, 2010 10:03:31 GMT -5
Thanks, Ithaca. I downloaded cdburnerxp after looking up the (good) reviews. I used Roxio last time when I downloaded Faery Lands of the South Seas and some Coleridge and other poems from Libravox. Yeah, my vehicle's cd player wouldn't recognize the first format I tried, but the latest cd I made seems fine, tho I haven't listened to it yet.
"I found the easiest way to download, is to unzip through "IZArc"..."
I'm a little (read very) hazy about zip files and all this. Why do I need "IZArc" to unzip a zip file? When I click on a zip file it unzips all by itself?
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Post by Freedom on Jan 16, 2010 10:58:22 GMT -5
From my experience the home PC unzip file is limited, had no luck opening "RAR" files with it. IZArc opens most files, including RAR, which is a popular format with music and audio book files. Here's some info on RAR files. www.rarlab.com/rar_file.htm(Just ignore the reference to "winrar", use IZArc instead.)
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Post by maddogblues on Jan 16, 2010 16:36:12 GMT -5
It's a tremendous story. The ideas man, the ideas. They set you free or they cage you depending on your choice. I discovered Libravox a while back and scouted around. Many great books, all free, all read by amateur volunteer readers, some good, some not so good. Another great internet resource! After some experimentation I figured out how to download a few books onto a CD or flash drive to play in my vehicle whilst driving. Can you tell me what is the neatest way to download them? Maybe they have instructions there someplace, but as they say, only as an absolute last resort, read the instructions! ww Just downloaded "call of the wild", my estimate is 8 hours worth of Audio crunched down to 52MB in a Zip file. How do they do it? I found the easiest way to download, is to unzip through "IZArc">> locate file >> add to burn "media player..etc>>burn to disc. That is about 10 cd-r worth. ....or to save on disc, a free program called "CD Burner XP Pro"(been using it for 5-6 years) will allow to burn on one CD-R in a different format (mp3?)
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Post by werewolf on Jan 19, 2010 10:38:42 GMT -5
It's a tremendous story. The ideas man, the ideas. They set you free or they cage you depending on your choice. .../quote] Are you referring to *Star Rover*? Call of the Wild, White Fang, are great. How is the Libravox reader? I've read a number of his lesser known books, too. He wrote many books, unfortunately some were clearly written just for the money paid per word, but so much of what he wrote was so great. I read *Voyage of the Snark*, about his round the world adventures on his custom made sailboat, last year. He stopped by Hawaii and went surfing - over 100 years ago. I didn't know that surfing was popular with tourists back then. he also visited a leper colony and found it to be very pleasant. One of his crew members, barely mentioned in the book, was Martin Johnson, who became a crew member by winning a contest. He later went on to become the Martin half of the Osa and Martin Johnson film crew who became famous in the early part of the 20th century by filming the wild parts of the Earth, such as darkest Africa and islands in the south Pacific. Freedom - I downloaded Izarc. Thanks. Will it automatically unzip all my ZIP files now, or do I have to open it up first? ww
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