[bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles

I think the Hadley Group are volunteers, or maybe paid, but not one of the 
outsource groups that have problems. I think those groups are out of the 
country.

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 Sat, 5/9/09, Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009, 4:49 PM
> 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
> >>
> >> table with 2 columns and 6
> >>   rows
> >> Subj:
> >> [bksvol-discuss] Missing story
> >>   titles
> >> Date:
> >> 5/8/2009 6:06:53 PM Eastern
> >>   Daylight
> >>   Time
> >> From:
> >> rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Reply-to:
> >> bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> To:
> >> bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Sent
> >>   from the Internet
> >> (Details)
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> **************
> >> Remember Mom this Mother's Day! Find
> >>   a florist near you now.
> >>
> >> (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=florist&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000006)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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