I've had to make up a synopsis, I like doing that, I think its fun. Lately though, I just go to amazon and copy theirs. But its good to know about the back cover one, I'll do that if amazon doesn't have one. Julia ----- Original Message ----- From: "solsticesinger" <solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 12:40 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: An observation about synopses
Thanks for the tip about upping the resolution, in order to get a better scan of the back cover. Sometimes, they scan very well at 300, but, other times, not so much. I don't think I've ever had to make up a synopsis, to tell you the truth, which is part of the reason this puzzles me. Shannon Women will starve in silence until new stories are created which confer on them the power of naming themselves.----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Smith" <donnafsmith59@xxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 10:27 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: An observation about synopses I second Shannon's concern. I can't remember the last time I had to make up a long synopsis. It's right there on the book, either on the dust cover or back of the book. Cut and paste is all that is required. Sometimes you have to up the resolution on your scanner if the description is on the back of a paperback book, but it's still no big deal. I scan the whole book on resolution 300 and then when I reach the back, I stop and up the resolution to 500 or 600 and scan the back cover. With all the other work that goes into scanning a book for BookShare, this piece is really very simple. And Shannon is absolutely right that it is hard to decide whether to read a book when we don't have full access to the information available to anyone else holding the book and looking at it. Donna On 12/28/08, solsticesinger <solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Good morning, all.It is rarely my intent to come in here and complain, but, this morning, asI was browsing the new books page, something really irked me. In truth, it has irked me for some time, but not enough for me to actually come in and write about it. There seems to be a problem with certain submitters and long synopses. They will write something very vague in the short synopsis field, which is fine, providing you can get more information from reading the long synopsis. However, in the case of a few submitters, you can't. The short and long synopses both have the same, very vague, description of the book. I do understand why we keep the "short" synopsis brief, but I do notunderstand the lack of a longer, more detailed, synopsis. If the submittercan't come up with one, can't the validator do so? It makes it very hard to decide whether or not a book is worth reading when you have very little information to go on. ShannonWomen will starve in silence until new stories are created which confer onthem the power of naming themselves.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list ofavailable commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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