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

Right on Jamie!  I'm sure that you and I aren't the only ones who have the 
manual comfortably in our portable devices so that we can sit where we want and 
read the manual.  As you said, it didn't take long to do this, and I am 
surprised that Bookshare doesn't want its members to do this.  

Linda Adams


Linda Adams
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jamie Pauls 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 1:40 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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