Hi Robin,
My opinion is that being able to prioritize which books to work on sooner
rather than later is VERY important. Yes, we certainly need some obscure
books, but there are some obscure good books and a huge, huge number of
obscure bad books. I'm all for processing the former, but hesitate
on the latter because they're not going to be of much benefit to their
readers. If someone has an obscure book in their collection, then they've
enjoyed it and by all means, it should be added to our collection. What
I'm trying to do is cut down the number of books that no one will ever
read, with exceptions. I just submitted I and Thou by Martin
Buber. Chances are that no one will read it, but it's a classic book on
philosophy and that alone makes it worthwhile to be added to the
collection IMHO. Maybe someday a philosophy student will read it, or
maybe not. Who knows?
The reason I'm saying all this is because there are a large number of bad
obscure books sitting on the shelves at the Bookshare office, that we've
been ignoring for years. I glance through them occasionally to see if I
recognize any authors but I usually end up processing books that members
have sent into the office instead. They of course are higher priority.
Carrie
Robin Mandell <robinmandell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I know I'm coming in late on this thread, so if I'm not understanding the
quesiton at hand correctly, I appologize. While I see the benefit of
knowing which books are more popular with bookshare.org subscribers, I
would not want to see a decline in submissions of less popular
books. Understanding the numbers might help us prioritize books,
especia lly books in a series as Mike pointed out. One of the nice things
about bookshare, though, is that one can find some of the more obscure
books which people contribute from their own personal collections.
At 05:30 AM 09/01/2006, you wrote:
>Mike,
> Of course, but this one I think falls lower on the priorities. Things
> like the submission form I would rather see updated first.
>
>And as you said a while back, this type of data Benetech might not want to
>release.
>
>Jake
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>
>
>>And so we did on CompuServe.
>>It really gave us a good feel of files people wanted and which just took
>>up space.
>>As a submitter, I wonder which books are valued by the customer s and which
>>just are there.
>>This type of info would also be useful in deciding whether scanning other
>>books in a series warranted the time commitment.
>>
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