Today my mom asked me to record some books on CD for my three little sisters. This is what I've decided to blog about, seeing as it is a space-filler and it is a very nice thing to do. So...

Step 1: Grab your materials-

What you're gonna need is this: a microphone that can hook up to your computer, a book, a recording system (if you are using a PC, go to START, click ALL PROGRAMS, then ACCESSORIES, then ENTERTAINMENT, and then SOUND RECORDER. Careful, sound recorder only records for a minute at a time!), and a little sign that hangs on your door knob that says this: PLEASE DON'T COME IN! RECORDING IN PROCESS. Okay, onto step 2.

Step 2: Rewriting the book-

Okay, so when you're recording and you get to the end of a page, you flip the page and the whole turning sound gets recorded. How nice. We don't need that. What you have to do is this: write the whole story on your computer's writing program (I use Microsoft Word). This may take some time, but don't worry, it will benefit you in the end. Done? Good; move onto the next step.

Step 3: Recording-

It's a good idea to record in 45 second segments if you are using the recorder that was mentioned in step 1 (if you don't remember what I'm talking about, go back and re-read the step), but record every bit of the book before moving onto the next step. It's a good idea to practice reading before you record so that you don't sound fake. Alright, next step here we come!

Step 4: Putting it together-

I used Windows Movie Maker to put my audiobook together, but you can use whatever you want. You can insert recordings of you introducing your audiobook, or music, sounds, or pictures (if you want it to be a movie instead). Just do it! When you're sure that you're through, save it to your harddrive. Okay now, next-o step-o.

Step 5: last step-

Now all you have to do is burn your CD. To do this (when using a PC), just insert a blank audio CD into your CD drive, open your audiobook on Windows Media Player, and hit "Burn Disk". That's all there is to it.

I hope you've enjoyed today's lesson in Careforyoursiblingsology. See yah!

Until we meet again,

HRTF

Postscript: "hurtf" is how you pronouce my blog name.