Wouldn't you have access from the Volunteers page? I'd rather not make it accessible to non members and non volunteers. Lisa -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Grandma Cindy Sent: Sun 8/5/2007 4:02 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download Updates I think it needs to go onto the download list with a special code, such as do not remove--or be made available to nonmembers if it's in the collection, like some of the public domain books. Otherwise people like Jamie and me won't have access. smile Cindy --- Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, I think Pratik has come up with a simple > method of allowing people to > keep up to date while taking the manual with them: > Put it in the new books > list whenever a change is made so people can > download the latest manual and > simply replace their older one. I hope this idea is > implemented. > > Evan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Linda Adams > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 12:27 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 > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 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.