That is nice of you, Bob. But the outsourcers get paid for their work, in
money! So maybe I have the wrong attitude, but it seems THEY should fix
them.
I ran into one, The Kennedy Women, An American Dynasty, that was in awful
shape. It was submitted and proofread by Trans Access. I filed a quality
report, and also notified Carrie. She sent it back to them to redo, and
now
it is in good shape. So they CAN do good work. (smile)
Sue S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 6:49 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
As far as I know, none of these contractors are on this list, or at least
they don't contribute under the name of their business. Maybe we can't
offer
them any advice.
If Carrey will put the original .rtf file
"Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson" back on the
step 1 page with a hold for me, I'll be glad to fix the story titles.
Fortunately, the book has a good table of contents and it appears to have
good pagination so it shouldn't be much of a problem.
I take it back, I have seen Hadley School for the Blind contribute to this
list. Thanks Hadley, and sorry for the oversight.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 12:53 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
When I was doing the list of books-added that John is doing now (Thank
you, John), I found very poorly written and in fact totally eroneous
synopses of books provided by outsourcers, plus missing series titles
and
sometimes incorrect titles. I've never downloaded any books, of
course,but
I have serious doubts about their quality. I think Carrie stepped in and
trained that particular group, and it sounds as if someone needs to do
that with this group.
Cindy
Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and
books-being-scanned list available at sites below
Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
Books Being Scanned List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
--- On Fri, 5/8/09, EVAN REESE <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: EVAN REESE <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, May 8, 2009, 7:34 PM
Hmmm, if I'm at the
point where I'm missing the
beginning of a new chapter or worse, the beginning of a new
story, I go to bed
or do something else until my mind is ready to stay on the
book.
More to the point is that
apparently noone at
Bookshare bothered to tell Daproim Africa how to protect
section headings in
books. Which seems strange to me, given the amount of
bandwidth that has been
devoted to this topic on this list. Makes me wonder how
familiar those who
communicate with the outsourcers are with how books get
into the collection,
especially about issues that can affect quality such as
section headings being
stripped unless they are protected in some way. Anyone from
the staff who has
spent much time on this list would have known to tell them
to take care of that.
Currently, I see that D.A. has added 1,032 books to the
collection. If they were
not told about protecting headings, then I wonder
what the chances are that
any of the other outsourcers were advised about this. Which
means that there may
well be thousands upon thousands of books, fairly recently
added books, that
will be missing chapter titles, story titles,
etc.
I certainly hope that this
is not the
case.
Evan
----- Original Message
-----
From:
Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, May
08, 2009 7:55 PM
Subject:
[bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing
story titles
Sometimes even with the titles there I
somehow
miss them. In fact, even with human narrated NLS books
they have managed to
slip by me. I am inclined to think that we need an
announcement something like
this: "Attention! Attention! Attention! A new story
is about to start! Prepare
yourself to switch gears. The last story has ended! Read
on and you will be
reading another story!"
"Philosophers have merely
interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to
change it." Karl
Marx
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Date:
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table end
I am currently
reading
"Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna
Henderson".
This is a book of short stories, and, dammit, some of
the story titles are missing.
There's nothing more disparaging
than to be reading a story and have something
surrealistic happen only
to find out it's a different story.
We had this
problem with the old stripper but I thought her younger
daughter had learned
better.
Can't engineering fix something as minor as a story
title?
Bob (mad as a wet hen)!
"Never doubt that a small
group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it
is
the only thing that ever has."--Margaret Mead
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