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- From: rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:48:42 EST
The wish list is indeed a bit large, but I am wondering about something.
Back in, I think, February Carrie told us that in about a month she was going
to start using grant money to buy educational books on the wish list and
that if we had any particular desire for titles that would be considered
educational we should add them to the wish list. At the time I could think of
quite a few that I might want to add, but that was about the time that Cindy
disappeared on us, so I refrained until we could find out if she was going to
be available to update the list or if someone else could. When Cindy came
back I still refrained because, not only was I uncertain about dumping a lot of
work on her in her condition, but also because there was no further mention
of the buy up of wish list books by Bookshare itself. Now pretty close to a
year has passed. What ever happened to that plan?
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Robert, as volunteers, we can submit almost any type of books we
choose.Bookshare is doing children's books because that's what the grant
moneycovers.
They
will do adult educational books as well, but no romances orthings
containing adult content. Bookshare funding is dependent upon howwell they
follow the
goals of the grant by adding 100,000 educational booksover a five-year
period. We're about to go into year 3 of the grant, so Ithink we'll see even
more
books for kids in the future. That leaves us to scan and proofread books
for pleasure. I'd like to recruitmore volunteers because I think we're making
only a tiny dent in the amountof books for adults that people say they want
to read. Our wish list ishuge, and I'd really like to find a way that we
can
get all of those booksadded to Bookshare. We would benefit from doubling
our number of activevolunteers, especially if we could find some additional
sighted
volunteerswho could help with books that blind people have trouble
proofreading.Monica Willyard"The best way to predict the future is to create
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