No, Monica, your experience is not unusual and I think you give many reasons that wish list requests are not quickly filled.
Mike and I can walk to our library, and I should concentrate a bit more on the wish list when scanning books, but I always find books that I want to read and do scan those first. Also, I belong to a book group and for the past two months have had to scan the book in order to read it for the group, and then I'm ready to validate rather than do more scanning.
Lori----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 11:21 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Dating the wish list requests
Hi, Cindy and Cindy. (smile) You're right about us whittling away at the wish list. I don't think adding dates would help, and this is why. I would say the biggest reasons many wish list books aren't scanned are money and time. I think money is the primary factor though. Many of us buy the books we scan, and we tend to buy books we'd actually like to read. Some of our submitters can access a library, but many of us cannot do that due to lackof transportation. Many volunteers are retired or are on a fixed income like SSI. Others are college students or people who work part-time. I buy around 90 percent of the books I scan. I buy them used, but the costs still add up.I don't think I'm the only one in this boat either. You know, what would really help me more than the date is if someone requesting a book werewilling to help by purchasing the book to be scanned. Stores like Amazon andBarnes and Noble make this easy and quick to arrange online. I know some people can't do that. Some can though, and I don't think they realize that volunteers are putting out our own money to fill the requests. Even thosewho get books from a library often have to pay for cab fares to and from the library. I certainly don't want to discourage people from requesting books.I just think the bottleneck for the wish list has a lot more to do with money and then time as a secondary factor. Do other volunteers see it this way, or is my experience unusual? Monica Willyard "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker 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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