Yes, the strip that says 'Advance Reading Copy' is usually small. I had chopped, scanned, OCRed and was about to submit a donated book when I noticed the strip across the top of the book. Hadn't noticed it before. I am sure that our volunteers wouldn't notice it either, and that the people who donated and submitted the books were innocence of any intentional wrongdoing. I wouldn't be surprised if other Advance Reading Copies have surreptitiously gotten into the collection, but it certainly wasn't intentional on anyone's part. Just gotta stay alert to such things to minimize their occurrences. Carrie ----- Original Message ---- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 7, 2008 6:00:02 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: No advance reading copies allowed I didn't know that was happening, and I haven't done it, but it's possible, Carrie, that the submitters and validators didn't know what they were doing. Even though they're not supposed to, Advanced reading copies of books find their way into used-book stores, and if a blind person happens to get one, he/she probably wouldn't notice that it's an Advanced Reading copy. Because we're in West L.A. where a lot of Indstry (Hollywood) people are and they donate a lot of books to our used-book store in the library, I notice them when I check in the books and put them in the recycle barrel. Stores are not supposed to sell them, but I don't know how many bookstore owners or their employees even notice--it usually says Advanced Copy in small letters. Or care. My suggestion, assuming the best on the part of the submitter, is for bookshare to reject the book with that as the reason. smile G.Cindy > Hi gang, > > Since this has occurred twice in the past few > months, I would like to remind everyone that > Bookshare cannot accept books before they are > published. Advance reading copies of books are > distributed to various people before publication, > with the proviso that the copies not be given to > anyone else. If someone mails or submits an advance > reading copy to Bookshare, someone somewhere has > broken an agreement and we cannot be party to that. > So please do not mail us advance reading copies of > books or submit them to the download list. They > won't be put into the collection. > > Just a gentle reminder, Carrie > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ***WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS AVAILABLE AT http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/Book_Requests.htm http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/ http://studentpages.alma.edu/~07jmyate/book_requests.htm A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/scanning.html Jake's site for useful links: http://www.jbrownell.com/bkslinks.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ