[bksvol-discuss] Re: How To Fast Track Your Submissions

Jackie,

 

The instructions are not up to date.  Bookshare has agreed for some time
that RTF is the preferred format, and they included that info in the recent
notice which stated that TXT and a few other formats are no longer being
accepted as of the end of September.

 

HTH

 

Gerald

 

 

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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: How To Fast Track Your Submissions

 

Monica,

 

Good suggestions, Monica!  I agree with them all ... except that, concerning
your first suggestion, the instructions for submitters suggests that using
the .ark or .kes formats is preferable - at least, that's the way I read it.
I have a book that I am about ready to try to submit - my first submission -
and I did it in .ark because I thought the instructions say that Bookshare
prefers the .ark or .kes, if possible.  I guess because the page breaks,
etc. are better and match the original book.  I personally would prefer
Word.  Up to now, I have validated books, but I am tired of trying to meet
the week time requirements, as I work full-time and only have short blocks
of time to devote to validating.  So I thought I would try to submit: that
way I'm on my own timeframe.

 

- Jackie McCraw

 

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From: Monica <mailto:plumlipstick@xxxxxxxxxx>  Willyard 

To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 7:59 PM

Subject: [bksvol-discuss] How To Fast Track Your Submissions

 

Hi everybody.  Since I know we have several awesome book submitters 
on these lists who don't validate books, I thought I'd write a short 
post on how to get your books approved quickly.  If you have a 
Bookshare friend who doesn't use the lists, please let them know 
about this too.  I know of 4 small but important things you can do to 
get your book submission into the express lane.  Even making one of 
these small changes will greatly improve the speed at which your book 
will be added to the collection.  Ready?  Here we go!

1. When possible, submit your book in rtf format.  Bookshare does 
accept books in formats like Openbook and Kurzweil.  However, many of 
our volunteers don't own those programs.  That means your book hangs 
out on the validation page until someone who owns your program can 
get to it.  Rtf is a format that almost all of the volunteers can 
handle easily.  Both Openbook and Kurzweil can save your book as an 
rtf file.  If you need help with this, just ask for help on the list.

2. When you submit your book, please give it at least a short 
description in one of the synopsis fields.  When a volunteer can find 
out what your book is about, they are often more interested in 
reading it.  Most volunteers prefer to work on books about subjects 
they enjoy, so your synopsis about the book matters.  It doesn't have 
to be fancy.  Just pretend that you're telling a good friend what the 
book is about.

3. When you submit a book, you will see a field for comments right 
before you submit the book.  If you will put your email address in 
there, the person who validates your book can contact you if there is 
a problem with your book.  Otherwise, if your book has a problem, the 
validater will either have to reject it, try to find you through the 
list, or has to spend his or her own time going to a library to get 
the print book to fix the problem.  Can you see how this can slow 
down approval of your book?  This isn't an official Bookshare 
requirement.  It's something you do so you can work as part of a team 
with the validater for your book.

4. Lastly, when you've submitted your book, post about it to the 
list.  Letting people know the book is available may get a 
volunteer's attention.  New books don't always appear at the top of 
the list of books awaiting validation, so this simple step is a 
powerful way for you to let people know about your book.

I hope these ideas help you.  I appreciate the work that each of you 
does in building Bookshare.  I'm looking forward to validating more 
of your books in the future, and I'll keep an eye out for those of 
you in the fast lane.  (grin)


Monica Willyard

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