[bksvol-discuss] Re: children's books
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 13:31:49 -0500
Of cause a lot of those children's books particularly the picture books
require extra time and skill to extract the text from the pictures and
sometimes they require hand typing in of the text.
But each is to their own. I know one volunteer she is on Bookshare Discuss,
who types in the kids books she does, and put in picture descriptions. She
is waiting to get a scanner, but.... smile.
Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Advisory Council
www.guidedogs.com
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to
stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
-- Vance Havner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 1:17 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: children's books
Wonderful idea, Elizabeth. As you say, the suggestion
has been made before but generally, not in such
practical detail. Maybe Boockshare will take it.
Cindy
--- "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some users read to their children, or to cousins,
> nieces and nephews and so
> forth using our braille displays.
>
> I suggest and have suggested for a while, that it
> might be a good idea to
> increase the credit for validation for a longer
> book. For instance,
> perhaps the credit could be increased to a dollar
> from fifty cents for any
> book of 300 pages or over. This might slow down the
> tendency to approve
> children's books as a validator just because they
> are short
> reads. Similarly, perhaps the fee for submitting
> could be based on a
> sliding sscale, say one dollar for a book a hundred
> pages long, two for
> something two hundred pages long and three dollars
> for three hundred and so
> forth.
>
> This is a slightly more complicated system than what
> is now in use but
> takes account of the time necessary to scan and
> validate longer books.
>
> E.
>
>
>
>
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