Hi, Brian! You know, I understand what you're saying, but I don't think
it's something we need to worry about. As someone said earlier (Shelley, I
think), sometimes there is a huge batch of children's books that show up on
the list of new titles. However, I've noticed that sometimes there seems to
be a huge batch of science fiction, romance, etc. In the scheme of things,
I believe that most folks will end up with plenty of books to read, for
which I am truly thankful. <Smile> Take care!
Jana
Jake,
Believe me, I salute your energy and your love of books. This is wonderful,
and I encourage you to stay with it.
Perhaps the solution is to have a volunteer or two who dedicate themselves to this genre of books.
I certainly would never want to deprive that young person the opportunity to
read the latest and greatest title that all her peers are reading, I just
want to be sure that we do not become too balkanized.
Happy reading, and good luck with your studies. Brian M.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jake" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 12:33 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare demographics
Brian,an
As a prolific submitter of kids material I'll take a minute to explain
why.
I'm a person of many hobbies each of which I will focus on from time to time. For instance I also enjoy old time radio programs greatly and havetitles,extensive collection of public domain material.
Books came before old time radio and other hobbies like web design and program design. I used to collect Hardy Boys books as well as otherbut primarily Hardy Boys. I remember reading some on my CCTV when myvisionwas better. I also remember the numerous NLS tapes and how annoyed I'd getnot
because they wouldn't have anymore when there were two or three times the
number of titles available that they had available. I also believe it orinin 1999 was scanning books every now and then at the age of 13 using OCR software offered by my scanner package. Was it error free? Definately not but you could follow what was going on. So I've got well over 100 if not close to 200 kids titles. I'm a freshmansomecollege now and when I began scanning books again this summer naturally I turned to my piles of books to read. Some I'd read through scanning andtowere read to me and others I had yet to read. Also this summer I saw an excellent deal on a huge lot of Boxcar Children books that weren't on BookShare yet, so naturally I picked them up.
It is also important to note that children books are faster and easier to do. The recent postings you might have seen from me might have somethingdo with the fact I'm on winter vacation and have scanned and submittedoverjust20 books during this time. I feel that I will for some time be a submitter of kids books because Iremember that I wanted more from series. And if at the age of 13 I'mI've
operating a computer and scanner then I could potentially at a younger age
be using a BookShare account to access my favorite books.
Of course I do enjoy older titles. I love John Grisham and have recently
read State of Fear by Michael Crichton and am currently listening to Fire
Ice by Clive Custler on audiobook. The text of Fire Ice isn't on BookShare
but I think my step mom has a copy I might be able to scan...it is proving
an interesting read...
Well I've definately strayed off topic a bit. I guess my point is that yes
there might be quite a bit, but looking at the new books list I definately
see a lot of nonkids related material. Hang in there with this semestergot going for me, 18 hours, I doubt you'll hear a lot from me <frown> butahchildrenswell then they'll be summer....
Happy reading!
Jake
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 11:30 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Bookshare demographics
> Listers,
> I wonder if there is any demographic information about the universe of
> bookshare users.
> I ask, because I am thinking that perhaps to some degree the books that
are
> submitted and validated might be prioritized according to the user > base.
> It seems to me, for example, that we are submitting and validating an
aweful
> lot of childrens books, and I can't think that there are that many kids
> using bookshare.
> Yes, I know that sometimes it is fun for us adults to read good> lit, and that some kids books are among the best titles in literature,but> it seems as though we have two or three kids books for every othertitle.> I for one am beginning to feel that all these kids books are crowdingout> other adult titles that are languishing waiting for validation.
> Brian Miller
>
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> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 4:50 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Submitted
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> > The God You've Been Searching For, by Mac Brunson, with foreword by
David
> > Jeremiah
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