[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare is 6!
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:09:53 -0800 (PST)
Besides, what you've told those of us who weren't here
then is interesting. And I think your comment about
Literature and Fiction is true.
Cindy Ray, I know you were kidding about Pratik being
old, but when I met him a couple of years ago at CSUN
I was surprised at how young he was/is. I'd assumed
from his posts, both the sensible and the silly, that
he was older than he is/was. I don't remember how
old he is, but he's a youn'un, though mature.
G.Cindy
--- Pratik Patel <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Oh, dave! We're never known for being off-topic on
> this list.
>
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> Yes, I've been here since the days of beta testing
> back in 2001 as
> well. I had forgotten about the first and last 1000
> words, until
> Shelley's post, and how sometimes it wasn't all that
> meaningful if
> there was a lot of front matter and an index or
> something.
> My recollection is when they went to a Step 1 page
> the highest
> percentage of books were text files, so that's a
> major change. We
> were also dealing with mass contributions of books
> individual users
> had scanned for their own collections, so there
> would be an influx
> of 200 or 300 books at a clip. I think the
> technique was to keep the
> queue of books awaiting the title, author, copyright
> check at around
> 600. So when the numbers of books awaiting
> attention started getting
> low, and we just felt cocky about our progress, bang
> all of the
> sudden another 500 or 600 books.
> The volunteer credit system didn't come about until
> Bookshare went
> public, and the $2.50 for validating is a
> significant and wise
> change, as we've shifted from the early days where
> quantity was
> important to the emphasis on quality today.
> Another difference was that initially, the stated
> preference for file
> formats in submissions was for Ark and Kes,
> hopefully with the images
> as well. Today, it is of course Rtf that is
> preferred.
> One change I remember suggesting back in the days of
> beta testing,
> and which I still would like to see, is that the
> category "Literature
> and Fiction" lose the literature part. It's always
> been my view that
> all fiction is literature, but not all literature is
>
> fiction. Hopefully however, we will get all new
> categories and book
> records with the new make over of the system in the
> not to distant
> future. It would be nice to see some type of
> library service
> software that would give us the categories,
> synopsis, etc., etc.
> right out of the box for most books, so that having
> the validator
> write them would be the exception rather than the
> rule.
>
> Dave, who has managed to get a bit off topic.
>
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