Tracy and others, Thanks for the helpful feedback. The Check Out List captures the very best of Bookshare. What makes Bookshare unique is that it is content neutral and members shape it by submitting what they want to see in it. There are several ways to pare down the list and all are still on the table: Motivating volunteers to take on apparently less interesting books Providing additional training for taking on tougher books Removing some of the books Shifting some books to outsourcers Recruiting the publisher to supply us with their whole book catalog as PQ On 12/29/10 10:12 AM, "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hi Scott. >As I said, I often look at the older books on the checkout list, and I >have seen some commonalities. Poetry and cookbooks often languish, >because they take considerable extra effort. Nonfiction often languishes, >especially on esoteric topics. People don't think the topic sounds >interesting, and hunt out something else. I have occasionally taken a >nonfiction book that I wasn't very excited about, and found it very >interesting, once I started. >Also, I suspect that many people start with the most recent books on the >checkout list, since they come up first, and never progress to page 2, >much less 3 or 4. >Some books just get overlooked. I haven't found many languishers with >serious quality issues, though. >I hope you don't just dump old books willy-nilly. Are they actually >hurting anybody, sitting there? >Tracy > > > 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. > > N?§²æìr¸?yúè?Øb²X¬¶Ç§u¦åjy?¨¥¶?ä²ú%v+ºË+z«?²×ëyéb²Û(® n¶Ø^Â?ݺ{.nÇ+?·?Ê+lzWâ?Ø^²æãyËe?w?¢jX¬¶?Ú½¨¥i¹^r?¦jwl¦ëm?ì(Ø^??ò?Û?ø§¶¬¹¸ÞrÙb?