[bksvol-discuss] Re: Have your scanning and proofing choices changed, with the influx of publisher quality books?

From: "Andy B." <sonfire11@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:39:10 -0400
For those who only submit books they would actually feel right reading, this
probably isn't going to work. There needs to be something a little better.
We don't (most of us I'm sure) have the time to spend researching down a bok
to scan with the possibility that a pq still might override it just to scan
it and have it actually happen sometime down the road.

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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 10:29 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Have your scanning and proofing choices
changed, with the influx of publisher quality books?

Like we have been saying, concentrate on long out of print books and small 
and obscure publishers.


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From: "Larry Lumpkin" <llumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:46 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Have your scanning and proofing choices 
changed, with the influx of publisher quality books?


> Scott, that is great but my problem remains.  I don't want my book 
> scanning
> to end up a waste of time.  What can be done to avoid this?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Rains
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 7:46 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Have your scanning and proofing choices
> changed, with the influx of publisher quality books?
>
> Volunteers,
>
> In response to both Judy's note on her trip to the candy shop below and
> Larry's dilemma posted to the list today on how to select books to scan 
> let
> me close my work day by sharing with you this note. Arriving in my Inbox
> first thing this morning it was titled 'Complaint" from our CEO Jim
> Fruchterman:
>
> Jim,
>
> I would like to register a complaint!  Bookshare is piling on books faster
> than I can read the titles.  Ever since I was a kid, I was a title 
> glutton.
> I went through every catalog the NLS had and every Braille Book Review.  I
> did the same later with Web Braille, and whole months have gone by during
> which I knew every book that hit the collection.
>
> This was viable, maybe even adaptive behaviour in a climate of scarcity. 
> I
> could pluck out a handful of the finite number of books on offer and leave
> the rest, and if I didn't have absolute choice, I at least got to be sure 
> I
> wasn't missing anything.
>
> Not. Anymore.  Bookshare is adding so much content that favourite authors 
> of
> mine are creeping into the collection without my noticing.  I'm finding
> whole herds of books I thought would be too frivolous ever to scan but 
> that
> I secretly wanted to read but that that *I* would never scan because I 
> would
> look silly. (E.G. a compendium of fashion mistakes spotted in Brooklyn. 
> An
> anthology of rejection letters.  Something called Zen Computer that gives
> you a meditation for every function key on the keyboard (the @ reminds you
> to consider your position in the universe!))..)
>
> Seriously, you guys rock.  I love this new pace and all the variety.  Feel
> free to share this with whoever's responsible for the awesomeness.
>
> Best,
>
> Chancey
>
> So volunteers, although our contribution into the collection stands at 142
> for July as of midday today, you still share in the blame for this
> embarrassment of riches!
>
> Thanks for all your work. Other responsibilities today have kept me from
> providing you with the volunteer manual feedback summary that I promised 
> but
> you will be pleased to learn that one of those responsibilities included
> detailing the changes to be made as a result of your input.
>
> Scott Rains
> Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
> ________________________________________
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judy s.
> [cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 5:08 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Have your scanning and proofing choices changed,
> with the influx of publisher quality books?
>
> Wow. I just checked the list of new books that have been added to the
> collection in the last 4 weeks, and it includes over 9,500 titles.
> Congratulations, Bookshare! That is absolutely amazing.
>
> In the last year I've changed my own personal strategy in terms of what
> books I work on, migrating to getting into the collection treasured books
> long out of print or from presses that aren't signing on to Bookshare. 
> That
> way I feel I can continue to contribute, but in areas that aren't going to
> overlap with publishers' contributions. I'm definitely curious if other
> volunteers are doing the same!
>
> So--what are you concentrating on scanning or proofreading, and has what
> you're working on changed with the influx of new publishers coming on 
> board?
> Are there hints you can share with how you're making your choices, that 
> the
> rest of us volunteers can use so we don't end up duplicating effort with 
> the
> PQ books that are coming into the collection?
>
> I've already had several books that I worked on replaced by "publisher
> quality" books.  I thought I would mind, but then realized that I'm 
> feeling
> pretty philosophical about it.  I do regret that (in my opinion) some of 
> the
> publishers quality books aren't as good as the ones they're replacing that
> were done by volunteers, mainly because of the missing image descriptions 
> in
> the PQ books that volunteers worked so hard to get into their 
> contributions
> of those titles. So I hope Bookshare finds some sort of way to have this
> addressed in the future.  I know that the staff are aware of this issue,
> from what's been said here.
>
> Overall, though, as a Bookshare member, I'm actually just feeling like a
> little kid in a really big candy shop. smile.
>
> Judy s.
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