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

From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:36:45 -0700

Hi, Judy, have you ever gone to alibris.com or thriftbooks.com? One thing
I've done is go to fantasticfiction.com and read about authors I don't know
about. Right now I'm proofreading a book by Audrey Howard, a writer who is
known in England but may be known in the U.S. Now I'd never heard of her
works because they aren't in any collections of Braille books or audio
titles (with the exception of two of them at audible.com.). I'm thinking if
you get your hands on books from small presses, out-of-print books, stuff by
midlist authors who haven't been touted much but still write good stuff
might be your best bet. So far everything I've worked on has been added to
the collection (which isn't saying all that much considering I'm not a
prolific proofreading-type person and prefer to take on stuff I'd want to
read in the first place). I'm wondering if I have a knack for picking stuff
that isn't popular (smile)? I'm thinking used books might a great source
especially if publishers ignore them. (Of course we want to add good stuff
[depending on your definition of "good stuff" as opposed to "bad" stuff] to
Bookshare.) Don't know if this is of any use to you but have tried to give
it a go. Regards and good luck in finding stuff that won't be set aside. Kim
Friedman. 

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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judy s.
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 5:08 PM
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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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