Gwen, I believe that Carrie was taking the holds off after a certain period of time, unless certain people specifically asked her not to. If you are interested in certain titles, that have holds on them, why not ask the person if you can have one. They may be willing to give one up. You can also post on here titles of books you are interested in proofing, and a scanner may be able to get it and scan it for you to proof.
Melissa Melissa Smith On 3/1/2010 9:33 AM, gwen tweedy wrote:
Yeah all the neat books have a name on them and some have been there practically a month and some much longer. I realize people have a say on their books which is wonderful, some people have tuns of books, and there would be no way they could possibly get to that many books in a two week time period, and a person who would truly enjoy proofing a book can't. I understand most folks have theirpreferences who does their books and that too is wonderful, but what happens to those who don't have anything to proof, can't scan for health reasons and truly want to help bookshare grow the library.Books just sitting up there in the line, are just sitting there.Some have choices because they can scan, some of us, don't have choices because we have to go with what is up there for us to choose from, then if they all have names, and for a month or more, that limits us in what we can do for Bookshare, and the point is, to get the books in the library quality wise of course, but in a timely manner as well.----- Original Message ----- *From:* robert tweedy <mailto:roberttweedy@xxxxxxx> *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> *Sent:* Monday, March 01, 2010 9:08 AM *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] The Hold discussion again. I am going to give an example of this post and I think that there should be something done about this hold business so we can get these books off the check out page if and when possible. Here's the example and by the way it was submitted December 10, 2009 so that is more than two weeks. HOLD FOR LINDA F The Shepherd, The Angel, And Walter The Christmas Miracle Dog <http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/142029/HOLD%2BFOR%2BLINDA%2BF%2BThe%2BShepherd%252C%2BThe%2BAngel%252C%2BAnd%2BWalter%2BThe%2BChristmas%2BMiracle%2BDog>
