[bksvol-discuss] Re: a synopsis suggestion
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 17:20:25 -0700 (PDT)
Shayla,
My understanding is that as a validator you can write
synopses in the synopses spaces before uploading. If
after reading and validating the book you think the
scanner didn't put a valid or complete synopsis you
can delete his/hers and write your own. If the
synopsis space is blank you can write one.
To check to see if this is true, maybe you could
download A Woman Betrayed. If there are short and long
synopses there, they are the ones I as validator
wrote, because the scanner only wrote, in the short
synopsis field, "A romance by a known writer" (or
something like that) and nothing in the long synopsis
field.
Cindy
- Shayla <shayla@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I haven't read the entirety of the synopsis thread,
> so apologies if this
> has been suggested before.
>
> Would it be possible to set up a specific
> bookshare.org email address to
> which readers could send in synopses? That is, say a
> reader downloads a
> book that has no synopsis, or a very generic one.
> The user reads the book,
> and can then synopsize the book much better. Do the
> admins have the ability
> to change a synopsis once a book is on site?
>
> I can see something like this getting really out of
> hand with people
> changing synopses all over the place, but perhaps if
> there were general
> rules--you can only suggest a summary if there is
> none or it gives almost
> no information, etc. A system of this sort has
> worked before for online,
> nonpublished fiction archives I've seen, though they
> were mostly on a much
> smaller scale.
>
> Doable? Not?
> Shayla
>
> Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
> Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the
> brave.
> I know. But I do not approve.
> And I am not resigned.
>
> -- 'Dirge Without Music', Edna St. Vincent Millay
>
> Ring the bells that still can ring,
> forget your perfect offering,
> there is a crack in everything,
> that's how the light gets in.
> --Leonard Cohen
>
>
>
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