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

  • From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 14:06:51 -0700

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

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