[bksvol-discuss] Re: I sure wish bookshare would consider pricing plans like cell phone providers do
- From: Chela Robles <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:29:39 -0700
Also I would not see myslef reading that many either, plus with the
way the economy is right now and is probably going to be in the future
if well I wo't go into politics now, but no way here on earth I will
personally pay for that feature nor have enough money to pay for
membership which is why I love the fact people can donate credits to
someone like me for instance who can't afford the annual payment. I'm
just sayin'...you dig?
On 10/15/11, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you can talk Bookshare into it then go for it. Downloading such large
> numbers of books, I think, would use up so much bandwidth that it would make
> it slower and more difficult for the rest of us and I expect that is why
> there are the limits in the first place, but if there was a significant
> charge for the increased number of downloads then I doubt that many people
> would take advantage of it and so it would not make it all that much harder
> on the rest of us. I do, however, have a hard time understanding why you
> would want to do that, especially if you had to pay for it. Like you said,
> you cannot possibly read 300 books a month and I seriously doubt that you
> can make it through even a hundred. I sure can't. I wonder what you are
> doing with them. If you are just giving them a skim to see what they are
> about it seems to me that you could either read the synopsis on the book's
> page or, since a good many of them do not have a synopsis, there are a lot
> of other sites such as Amazon and others that do. It would seem that looking
> on sites like that would be less time consuming and trouble than downloading
> them and skimming them. Personally, I download a book when I am ready to
> read it and I am ready to read it when I have finished the last one. It has
> occurred to me that maybe I should download a good number and store them
> just in case something unforeseen happens like my losing my Internet access,
> but I have never gotten around to it. I have trouble seeing why I would want
> to download so many that I could not read them all in a lifetime though. I
> see Bookshare, BARD, Open Library and the other sources I use to acquire
> books as a very large personal library. It is personal because I can take a
> book down from the shelf whenever I want to without leaving my house. Back
> when I actually had a personal library of print books I would take one off
> the shelf when I wanted to read it. I see that as analogous to downloading
> it. When I was through reading it I put it back on the shelf and I consider
> that as analogous to deleting it. If I wanted to read it again I could just
> take it off the shelf again, that is, download it again. If I had taken them
> all off the shelf and kept them off the shelf without using them then I
> would have considered that to be just plain porr housekeeping. Similarly,
> downloading hundreds of books and then having to store them on my computer
> or some other kind of drive and then keping track of them while not actually
> reading them strikes me as poor housekeeping too, not to mention being a lot
> of trouble. One thing I do, though, is that when I come across a book that I
> want to read or might want to read, is to bookmark it. I have a special
> folder in my bookmarks for Bookshare, Open Library, the Western Australian
> Association for the Blind and so forth. I find that books from BARD and the
> NLS catalog are not retrievable with my bookmark utility, so I have a folder
> in my documents in which I have copied the search results pages I am
> interested in. This suffices for me. Granted, I do not have hundreds of
> bookmarks in these folders. That would be unwieldy too, even if not as
> unwieldy as downloading hundreds of books. I keep the ones that I have the
> strongest interest in and when my bookmark folder starts to get too big,
> about more than a dozen bookmarks in one folder, I start deleting the ones
> that I am least interested in. I figure that it will be so long until I
> would get around to downloading them anyway that I may as well look for them
> when I am ready to bookmark them again. Actually, since I am likely to
> bookmark other books that I am interested in as I come across them, books
> that have about a dozen ahead of them are books that I will probably not get
> around to downloading anyway. Downloading hundreds of books a month, though,
> seems like inundating myself with a lot of trouble for nothing though.
>
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> From: "Dana" <dananolan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] I sure wish bookshare would consider pricing plans
> like cell phone providers do
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>>I went on vacation for example and I am not complaining in the least I am
>>exstatic that there are so many new books up on bookshare so what I am
>>sayign is that I sure do appreciate the service immensely and love all of
>>the awesome books I get to read because of it.
>> I understand completely there is no way shape or form that I can read
>> more than probably 100 books a month as yes I do read about 2 or 3 books
>> sometimes daily, but this is the thing.
>> I have literally had to email myself lists of books that I want to come
>> back to the site and eventually download once my ability to do this is
>> given back to me.
>> I do at this time get 300 downloads a month and again as I stated I know I
>>
>> can't read that many books, but the convenience of just being able to
>> download books when I look at the new books added to the collection would
>> save me a lot of time and I believe if bookshare instituted a pricing plan
>>
>> structure, for example that those who paid one yearly fee could get one
>> number of downloads and those who paid a different higher amount for a
>> yearly fee could be given ability to obtain more downloads.
>> I do not want something for free I am willing to pay whatever would
>> benefit bookshare in any way shape or form, I just wish there were an
>> option to for example pay double the annual cost yearly to be given say
>> 500 downloads monthly for those of us who choose to download more books.
>> Or even say a structure like paying the normal 50 dollars yearly for 300
>> books monthly 100 dollars for say 500 books monthly and I doubt anyone
>> would need this but even say 200 dollars annually for people who wanted to
>>
>> download 1000 books monthly. This would earn bookshare more money and give
>>
>> those of us who wanted it more options. Me personally I just like to keep
>>
>> them on my external hard drive and booksense and when one works 40 hours
>> weekly full time anything to save me time is a good thing in my book
>> (smile)
>> I wonder if anyone can see what I am saying at all and to me anything that
>>
>> can give bookshare more money and give those of us who want it more
>> convenience seems to me a good idea.
>> Thanks for reading.
>> Dana
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