Hi everyone, I have what I hope you will all see as good news. I am going to start work on creating synopses for all the publisher quality books that have beensubmitted to Bookshare. I've talked with the Bookshare staff, and we've decided that I'd take on that task. I'm happy to do it because as someone
who is also a Bookshare member, I prefer when books have some sort of description. So I can understand why everyone has been wanting this so much. I will be writing these synopses by hand, and I won't have read most of the books I'm summarizing, but I will do research on each title in order to write at least a little description for each book. You all may help with this if you like. If there is a book in the collection that you notice does not have a synopsis, and you'd like to write one, you can E-mail it to me and I will put it into the collection. I'm happy to write them all myself, but we will get synopses up more quickly if some of you share your suggestions. Just E-mail me at allisonh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Please include the book author and title along with your synopsis in your message. You can write just a short synopsis, or both a short and long. Either will be helpful. I'm trying to do both short and long on the ones I'm uploading, but that may not happen with all of them. Please be patient with this process. I ask this because I am going to a conference for Bookshare later this week, Thursday through Sunday, and I won't be able to work on this project during that time. But I'll put up as many synopses as I can both before and after I go. You can still E-mailsynopses to me during that time if you like. I wrote and uploaded three summaries today, not much of a start, but they are three more than
we had yesterday. Note: to cut down on list traffic, please do not post synopses to the list. You can E-mail them directly to me at allisonh@xxxxxxxxxxxx, or from the address I'm writing from now which is bookshare_girl@xxxxxxxxI'm excited to be getting these synopses up on the site in order to help us continue to provide the best Bookshare books possible!
Best, Allison Hilliker: Intern, Benetech (Bookshare.org). E-mail allisonh@xxxxxxxxxxxx www.bookshare.org 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.