That is strange. All LI can think is that perhaps at one point it was
removed and put on the download queue to be fixed because something
was wrong. One of the book,s, but I think it was the Last Speeches
..., though--was returned to have the end-of-line paragraph symbols
removed, which I did; it would then have been added back to the
collection. Maybe the same thing happened to The Last Year of ...Or
maybe that's the book, and not the speeches.. and fact, now that I'm
remembering, or trying to, the content,that was thebook. Am I the
volunteer listed as proofer?
Cindy
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Roger Loran Bailey
<rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <mailto:rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
#
No, the book is available on the Bookshare site. You can go there
and download it yourself. It's just that on the list of all my
submissions in the "my scans in progress" page it is marked as
having been removed from the system. By the way, Pathfinder Press
is my favorite publisher and if they did start supplying their own
copies that would please me even if it did mean that some of my
own contributions were removed, but it has not.
On 2/25/2013 9:53 PM, Nimit Kaur wrote:
Hi Roger,
That is strange. So, you mean the book you submitted is no
longer on
the bookshare site? Just curious. Sorry I don't know the
answer to
your question, neither do I totally get it, but anyways. So,
is your
book gone totally? That's really strange all that work you
put in to
it I guess. Thanks!
On 2/25/13, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
<mailto:rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
#
Back when so many people were upset that their volunteer
submissions
were being replaced by publisher quality books I felt
rather smug
because none of my own contributions had been replaced.
The reason is
that pretty much every book I have submitted is published
by a small and
obscure publisher or is quite old. To this day I was
confident that none
of my submissions had been replaced. Well, just now I was
doing
something I do not ordinarily do. I was on my scans in
progress page,
which now contains one's whole history of submissions, and
this time I
started scrolling down to look at all the books I had
submitted. It
turned out that two of my submissions had been labeled as
removed from
the system after all. They were "Malcolm X: The final
Speeches" and "The
Last Year of Malcolm X." I was certain that the publisher,
Pathfinder
Press, had not signed an agreement with Bookshare even
though I wish
they would do so. My first thought was that my
contributions had been
replaced by outsourced copies and if that was the case I
was going to
come here and ask what is the point of even having
volunteers if our
work is going to be replaced with copies that Bookshare
has acquired
from wherever they acquire them and farmed out to the
outsourcers. But
first I did a search of the collection for one of the
books in question,
The Last Year of Malcolm X. I found it readily and clicked
the title to
find out who supplied the copy that had replaced mine. It
turned out to
have been myself after all. The metadata page does state
that I was the
submitter and that a fellow volunteer was the proofreader.
So why is it
labeled in my history of submissions as having been
removed from the
system while it remains in the system and is ready to be
downloaded?
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