Bookread: Nathaniel's Nutmeg...", Ch. 2 (Sound Museum archives)

This is a reading from the second chapter of "Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or, The True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed The Course Of History", by Giles Milton.

It is also intended for the Freesound Sound Museum to represent BOOKS as what is fading rapidly into obsolescence. By the time you read this, you may not even know what a BOOKS is. Books are when the written word is compiled onto sheets of paper in a long-form volume. You may not know what paper is. Paper is commonly used to write on or make oregano cranes with, being flat and thin rectangles made from trees. You probably won't remember what a tree was. That is a very sad thing. They are all gone now, destroyed in feckless deference to paper. When the paper runs out, there will be nothing left to write our collective histories on, what we desperately need. When this occurs, it will stand as the moment our past was truly lost, leaving us lost the same, drifting in circles. Until another man or woman rises up to invent trees again, thus beginning the cycle anew. It's a beautiful idea. We should always be moving towards the future, not lost in syrupy memories of old forests not seen for what they really are: petrified wood and amber. Leave that with the other fossils and relics. Let it be the final page written on the last book until it crumbles to dust. Let it go.

The file was recorded using a mid/side stereo technique at 24bits, downsampled to 16bits under the loving care of Gaussian dither. The room was treated as best I could to be acoustically pleasing and quiet. I think you will find the noise floor to be particularly well balanced and textured, suitable for post-production tasks, or just for relaxing with at home.