[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 00:21:25 -0400

I think some quality control needs to be done here. At least don't throw out
all the work people took their free time to do (hours, or weeks even) for
some publisher's book who (the publisher) possibly doesn't even know what
bookshare is or what it even does.

- Maybe bookshare should limit the kind of books publishers submit?
- Like technical books or programming books?
- Those that would be nearly impossible to get with a scan?

At first, I thought it was a cool idea getting tons of publishers involved
in order to have books that turned out right. Now I think it's a good idea,
but put a limit to it. Really the publisher doesn't care how their book
turns out, after all, they are submitting in batches. Just make sure that
our work doesn't just get junked because a publisher overrides it with
something bookshare thinks is better...
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judy s.
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 8:08 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.
 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.

 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.

Other related posts:

  1. Home
  2. bksvol-discuss
  3. Archive
  4. 07-2010