[bksvol-discuss] Re: file conversion question, txt file dilemma

  • From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:58:53 -0700

Hi Jamie,

        I'm sorry to confirm that submissions in txt format are not accepted
by bookshare.  But, on the bright side, all of the rtf and ark files are
still acceptable file formats for submissions.  And the txt files don't have
the formatting that Bookshare requires.  Too bad.  But some of a collection
being available is a lot better than none of it, isn't it?

Hopefully.

Mayrie



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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] file conversion question, txt file dilemma

Hi, all, I've heard from at least one reliable source that .txt files can't
be used on bookshare and if they are saved as rtf files, they'll lose
formatting.  The file I have, I had to save to this format because the book
wouldn't read properly with pdf adobe and jaws, and while I was getting
signed up as a bookshare member, I was told I could submit txt files by a
bookshare staff member.  I believe my reliable source that says you can't
submit .txt files to bookshare, I just wanted to ask out here as well to see
if there's any hope at all whatsoever as I've got a friend who has quite a
few books on txt as well as rtf and a few ark's, and all totaled, she has a
sizable collection that I'd love to see added to the bookshare library.  Any
suggestions or light on the subject would be greatly appreciated as neither
of us felt that it would be a problem to save files this way or we would
have saved them originally as rtf so they would be appropriate for
bookshare.  Thanks a bunch and have a blessed day.  

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