[bksvol-discuss] Re: Hopefully my last post on volunteers VS pq
- From: "Andy B." <sonfire11@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:42:36 -0400
Our job shouldn't be to find the most funky out of date and most left behind
books possible. It should be to find a book we think someone else would want
to read and send it along. The first one just makes the volunteer network
sound like it is desperately trying to hang on until it gets snuffed out
somehow. I'm sure that's not what we are here for.
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 10:39 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Hopefully my last post on volunteers VS pq
As I have mentioned before, what with outsourcers and publisher submissions
the volunteer contributed books in the collection is now a small minority
and shrinking. That does not mean, though, that there is no role for
volunteers at all anymore. It is just necessary to shift niches. That is,
again, long out of print books, small presses, vanity presses and the most
obscure books that you can find.
_ _ _
"Socialism can be built only by free men and women working together to lay
the foundations for a new society and transforming themselves in the
process." - Ernesto "Che" Guevara
The Militant:
http://www.themilitant.com
Pathfinder Press:
http://www.pathfinderpress.com
Granma International:
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Lumpkin" <llumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 10:16 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Hopefully my last post on volunteers VS pq
> If bookshare values the scanning and proofing of books by volunteers.
> Tell
> us how? In what way? If we are to scan and proof books for the
> collection,
> which books? Someone sends me a box of books to add to the collection but
> I
> am decidedly NOT going to scan them only to find that my scanning and
> possibly the proofing of my wife who spends sometimes days on a book
> reading
> it from cover to cover will be dumped in the bit bucket because of a PQ
> submission which is often inferior to our efforts. I'm sorry, but the
> answers provided by bookshare staff concerning this issue have not been
> satisfactory. The solution we are being offered is, "well, go ahead and
> scan and proof away and good luck." As you can tell, I am decidedly not
> happy.
>
>
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