[bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download Updates

  • From: "Linda Adams" <ladams@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 15:34:19 -0600

RE: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download UpdatesWay to go, 
Lisa!  Thank you for responding so quickly.  

Linda Adams

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lisa Friendly 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 3:32 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download Updates


  It's on its way. I will post mail shortly. For now, we're going to start with 
downloadable html. Then everyone on the list can convert it as they wish for 
their players, their preferences, etc.

  Lisa


  -----Original Message-----
  From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Evan Reese
  Sent: Sun 8/5/2007 2:12 PM
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download Updates

  True enough. This is easily done. Still, there's no reason why we couldn't
  have both a complete downloadable manual which could be placed in the new
  books list whenever changes are made, and that can be accessed the way it is
  now. If it is as easy to concatenate the files under the separate links as
  it is, then it would be easy to make the manual into a complete book for
  those to download who wish.

  Evan

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Jamie Pauls
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 12:40 PM
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download Updates


    It took me less than five minutes to click on each main topic of the
  manual, save the pages to my hard drive as a text file, and send them to my
  Book Port. Anyone who is computer savvy enough to be a Book Share volunteer
  surely has the technical know-how to save the manual for future reading if
  they wish. The staff has stated why they wish to leave the manual on the web
  for the present. Many software manufacturers follow the same practice with
  their help files and manuals. I plan to go sit in my comfy recliner, hold a
  cat on my lap if I can talk her in to it and read the manual on my Book
  Port.
      ----- Original Message -----
      From: Linda Adams
      To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
      Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 2:27 PM
      Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download
  Updates


      Hi, Evan.  That idea may not even work technically, but we have already
  alienated one person, who said that she wouldn't be reading the manual if
  she didn't have it on the go, and there may be others like that person.  I
  hope we can come up with something to give people free access to the manual
  on the go, in their note takers, or whatever, that will satisfy Bookshare's
  concerns about updates because otherwise, Bookshare, if it does nothing, may
  alienate several of its volunteers.  After all, how can we call ourselves
  Bookshare if we're not willing to share our main book?

      Linda Adams

        ----- Original Message -----
        From: Evan Reese
        To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 12:56 PM
        Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download
  Updates


        Sorry, Linda, but I don't have a good feeling about this idea.
  Certainly, we want to encourage people to have the latest information, and
  some problems may arise if they don't get it. But forcing them to download
  it by not allowing them to volunteer if they don't sounds to me like a
  really good way of alienating people.

        Evan

          ----- Original Message -----
          From: Linda Adams
          To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
          Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 2:53 PM
          Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Foolproof Method for Manual Download
  Updates


          If Bookshare staff puts a Bookshare manual book in the collection
  for us to download, a code could be placed in the downloading of that book
  since Bookshare knows anyway when we download books.  This code could be
  necessary to show up in our account or profile before we would be allowed to
  submit or validate books.  That way, no further volunteering could be done
  unless the volunteer had downloaded the latest version of the manual.  That
  code could be an automatic password attached to the download of the manual
  that would be our key to continue volunteering.  The system would see that
  manual download code and permit us to continue volunteering.

          Linda Adams


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