[bksvol-discuss] Re: A novel I am reading for my class that has some scannoes. Can they be fixed? I mean can the book be replaced?
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:46:21 -0700
I'm delighted you're going to do that. I assume the bok has Hold for
Nimiit on it. smile
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Nimit Kaur <kaur.nimit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello! Roger, I like your idea. I think it would be cool!! I got a
> response from Bookshare and I just wanted to tell you guys. I am
> going to fix those scanoes and this book is in the check out list. I
> am getting it in braille copy from somewhere and I will fix them for
> the next student to read it. Thanks for all your help again.
>
>
> On 3/21/13, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> #
>> I just used the advanced search to see how many fair quality books are
>> in the bookshare catalog right now and there are 944. My experience with
>> fair quality books, though, makes me think that most of them are so
>> unreadable that they can't even be proofread. There are 4267 good
>> quality books though. Those could probably benefit from proofreading.
>> Something else occurs to me. Open Library has hundreds of thousands of
>> Daisy books that have not been proofread at all. They are raw scans, but
>> they are pretty good raw scans. That is, my experience with them is that
>> most of them would be rated as good quality on Bookshare. Very many of
>> those good quality Open Library books are not in the Bookshare
>> collection. Bookshare and Open Library have some kind of relationship,
>> but I don't know what it is. If there is a relationship at all, though,
>> it might provide an opening for this suggestion. What if Bookshare
>> should make this proposal? Open Library could supply books to be put on
>> the Bookshare checkout list and volunteers could proofread them. Those
>> books would then go into the Bookshare collection and also be returned
>> to Open Library to replace the copies that they now have. That sounds
>> like a win for both organizations to me.
>>
>> On 3/21/2013 6:22 PM, Cindy Rosenthal wrote:
>>> Actually, Nimit,you've probably done us all a favor; judging by a
>>> recent note from Madeleine I think it was part of the phone
>>> conference call) agenda) there need to be more books available for
>>> proofing, so your book, and maybe staff (or members who can download
>>> books) can find a lot of others in the collection that can be put on
>>> the download list as BSOs forproofing and quality up-grading
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Hi Nimit,
>>>>
>>>> Sent a book quality report. You're right that replacing C for O is not
>>>> a
>>>> problem. BARD may have a Braille copy. I'm sure they have an audio
>>>> one.
>>>>
>>>> Ann P.
>>>>
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