Hi, Monica, from your mouth to God's ear. I think the more the merrier. Let there be more crack submitters and proofreaders who love finding books for every type of reading pleasure. Let them raid fantastictfiction.com and discover all manner of authors we know nothing about who write stuff that's entertaining for those who like a good story. Regards, Kim. -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Monica Willyard Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 12:23 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: What is the main concern these days? 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 money covers. They will do adult educational books as well, but no romances or things containing adult content. Bookshare funding is dependent upon how well they follow the goals of the grant by adding 100,000 educational books over a five-year period. We're about to go into year 3 of the grant, so I think 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 recruit more volunteers because I think we're making only a tiny dent in the amount of books for adults that people say they want to read. Our wish list is huge, and I'd really like to find a way that we can get all of those books added to Bookshare. We would benefit from doubling our number of active volunteers, especially if we could find some additional sighted volunteers who could help with books that blind people have trouble proofreading. Monica Willyard "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker 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. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4650 (20091130) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4650 (20091130) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4650 (20091130) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com 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.