I got the expiration warning right after the new site went up, but when I went to renew that option wasns't available until a day later. I assumed that the extra day was because the site was down for a while and we were given extra time. I have not received a notice this morning, and my calendar tells me that I need to renew tomorrow or before Tuesday, when my time expires. I'm glad you mentioned it, Evan. I have my calendar marked or I probably would have missed renewal, too. Cindy --- EVAN REESE <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Actually, three of Lissi's books expired without > notice. I focused on the one that expired that I > submitted because of the murky communication from > Bookshare about what happened to it and my inability > to find it. Fortunately, she was able to retrieve > the other two from the Proofreading page. I > resubmitted the "rejected" one and it is nearly > ready for uploading to the Admin Queue. > > Since Mayrie did get an expiration notice, the > situation of not getting notices is obviously not > universal, but Lissi's situation was not unique. It > occurred to me that it may have something to do with > the fact that all three books were submitted on the > old site. Perhaps somehow the notices for these > books were not sent out, while those for books > submitted or renewed on the new site did go out. But > that's sheer speculation at the moment. If it is > valid, though, then this problem should clear itself > up in a few days. > > Evan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mike and Lori Castner > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 9:34 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Are You Guys Getting > Your "About to Expire" Notices? > > > Hi Evan, I lost one of my books the same way. I > was counting on that reminder notice and by the time > I figured something was wrong, someone else got the > book. I sent a note to support, so maybe that will > help. > Mike > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Robert Riddle > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 5:32 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Are You Guys > Getting Your "About to Expire" Notices? > > > I guess they gotta find some way to justify > their salaries. Some people aren't happy unless they > can break something which already worked reasonably > well. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: EVAN REESE > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 3:39 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Are You Guys Getting > Your "About to Expire" Notices? > > > Just wondering whether anyone else has had a > book expire, or has renewed a book that was due to > expire less than two days from the time you renewed > it. I submitted a book for Lissi to validate and she > did not get any notice that the book was due to > expire in two days. Nor, did she gget a notification > that the book actually had expired, which it did > before she renewed it. > > Are you all getting your notices? I've written > to Pavi about this. > > The book that expired was apparently picked up > by someone else and, I think, rejected. I cannot > tell for sure because the letter from Bookshare is a > bit ambiguous, saying that the book "has not been > added" to the collection. But it doesn't say what > DID happen to it, whether it was kicked back to the > list of books to be proofread, or sent to the > rejection list. I checked my list of books that have > been rejected and it wasn't there, and I did not > find it on the list of books to be proofread. > Needless to say, I have written to Pavi about this > as well. > > I am sorry to say that, given the lack of > acknowledgement of books sent up to the Admin Queue, > the lack of a quality analysis on the proofreading > page,, the lack of expiration notices, the ambiguity > of my recent letter from Bookshare, communication > between Bookshare to its volunteers seems to be a > lower priority than it used to be. > > Yes, I know that Pavi said that they would > work on the acknowledgement issue, but there seems > to be a whole range of examples that indicate a > lowering of interest in clear feedback to the > volunteers. > > I did not participate in the recent thread > concerning not liking the new site, but I am afraid > that I am beginning to think that in addition to > some issues I have with the site, I am liking the > new Bookshare less overall. They have built the site > "from the ground up" as I believe they said, when > perhaps they should have taken what worked well from > the old site and added to it. Now they have to spend > all this time fixing things that worked just fine > before. > > Evan > WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS AVAILABLE AT http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/wish_list/wish_list.htm www.lljfm.net/bookshare/home.htm A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/ www.lljfm.net/bookshare/home.htm To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 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.