Maryann, I wouldn't use the flawed sound system, but then, I don't really need it. Here's our excellent podcast of your reading:
http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showthread.php?t=10430
Will, absolutely use tape to practice. I don't do it any more, but I sure did at first, and I've listened to dozens of hours of myself, most recently recording a nine hour archive of Selected Murphy (my first book is here at the Sphere:
http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/podcas...parts1to4.mp3; and we edited the entire three hours of the Beowulf, a recording made a decade ago (wish I had the voice I had then!) You should listen to John Beaton's tape too, because he is a superb performer:
http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showthread.php?t=10317