[bksvol-discuss] Re: curious about Latest books

  • From: "Bob W" <rwiley45@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 14:23:36 -0500

One thing I do when I'm just browsing--looking for something to read--is to go 
to John's new books list at http://myplace.frontier.com/~bshare/ 
and look at what's out there. At least I can usually distinguish between adult 
books and children's books, and fiction and nonfiction.

Bob
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Denise Thompson 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 2:07 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: curious about Latest books


  Thanks Mary
  I'm glad staff is aware of the problem. It definitely starts to impact 
Bookshares effectiveness though if readers can't find books. Yes we can check a 
favorite author, but that's very limiting. There's no way to know about 
potential new books we might be interested in and new authors to choose from. 
Isn't there some way volunteers could work on categorizing the books? With the 
current situation, members aren't able to take advantage of the progress being 
made from publishers greatly increasing the numbers of books in the collection. 
The odd twist is that when we were scanning them ourselves we actually had more 
books available because we could at least identify them.
  Denise

  At 10:56 PM 9/6/2011, you wrote:

    Hi Denise,
     
    You're right.  Publisher quality books are not categorized.  They're 
automatically put into the collection after being cleaned up, and converted to 
daisy and braille by Bookshare's conversion tools.  The choosing of categories 
seems to be something that requires the human touch at this point.
     
    I guess the only way you could know about new books is to search by authors 
that you know write frequently in a particular genre.  
     
    Staff is very aware of this problem, and we're working on getting it fixed 
so that PQ books will have categories.  We just don't know how that will happen 
yet.  But we do know it's a pain in the neck not to have categories for books 
and want that to change too!
     
    Mayrie
     
     


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    From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [ 
mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Denise Thompson
    Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 5:19 PM
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] curious about Latest books

    Hi Folks
    I'm cuious about how books are being added to the collection these days. I 
have a link set up to bring up the latest books to the collection in the 
categories of mistery and thrillers, romance, lit and fiction and westerns. It 
seems like now for quite a while we can go for days without any new books 
showing up. It stays the same. Yet I thought we were getting all these books 
added from publishers. So my question is are they just added and they aren't 
given dates or I've checked a number of them and they weren't categorized. So 
that's maybe why they don't show up. The new books must be being added some 
where. Like for example, Alter of bones has been the book on the top of my list 
and it hasn't changed since last thursday. And Justice by Karen Robards never 
did show up on my latest book list. I found it because I periodically look up 
favorite authors and see if their new book is there when I know it has come out 
and haven't seen it yet. Justice was in the collection and apparently came from 
the publisher. It was submitted by bookshare staff it says and it was not 
categorized. That's probably why it didn't show up. So if all of the books 
aren't being categorized how are we supposed to find them Especially if we 
don't always know the exact name, etc.
    Denise

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