I like the way Emily put it. If you were a volunteer at a homeless shelter and all the residents found homes would you complain that all your work had been wasted and would you complain that the objects of your volunteering no longer needed your services?
_ _ _"Socialism can be built only by free men and women working together to lay the foundations for a new society and transforming themselves in the process." - Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 5:47 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Back on the List
Consider all the people that had the opportunity to read the books youhelped with over the decade. If you hadn't done this they would have neededto wait till now. From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Louise Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 5:42 PM To: Bookshare Volunteers Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Back on the List I got back on the list yesterday after being gone from it for a long time.Although I knew it was inevitable, I am still very unhappy about the number of books that are being replaced. In my particular case, I've lost about 40 books in the last month! At this rate, in a year or two, I will be down to zero or close to it and then I can hang it up and chalk it up to a decade ofwasted time and effort. Like so many tasks that are undertaken in life,, even good ones never last. I guess It was a pipe dream to think that volunteers would be scanning books that would stay on Bookshare for many years to come and now reality has to be faced. I guess we should be grateful that Bookshare is increasing their quantity (and quality?) of books so dramatically. Numbers have always been everything when it comes to the big picture. I joined Bookshare a month or so after they went live in February of 2002, but at this point I don't know whether or not I'll be around by the time they reach their next anniversary in February of 2011. Perhaps Bookshare should change their name to something like Digital Books for the Blind, Dyslexic, Learning Disabled, etc. I will continue scanning books since I still enjoy doing that. As towhether or not they will ever reside on any other computers besides mine isanother matter entirely.Now that I've had my say, I'll get off my soapbox and go back to my scanner.What will happen will happen and we'll just have to accept the inevitable whether we like it or not.
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