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

  • From: "Linda Adams" <ladams@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 14:07:36 -0600

RE: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download UpdatesThanks a 
million, Lisa!  I know that there are many other grateful volunteers as well.  

Linda Adams

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lisa Friendly 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Cc: Jake Brownell 
  Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 2:08 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download Updates


  Hi everyone.

  I favor having it online as a downloadable file. I just saw these messages. I 
should have given Jake guidance on this. We had our wires crossed. He and I 
will talk shortly and the problem will be addressed very shortly.

  Apologies,

  Lisa


  -----Original Message-----
  From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Linda Adams
  Sent: Sun 8/5/2007 12:46 PM
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [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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