I know from personal experience how frustrating it is to want to add a book,
only to learn that your book is already in the collection after you've gone
to the trouble of getting a hard copy.
That being said, there are the books from the wishlist, which are always a
good place to start if you need inspiration. Also, if you know of books that
are self-published, it is more likely than not that BookShare doesn't have
them in their collection. The only way that would change is if an author
chose to contribute their books, or if BookShare came to agreements with
self-publishing platforms.
One publisher of books that I don't think BookShare has an agreement with is
Bean. Or if they do, it's not particularly consistent.
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of misha
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 12:57 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: free books for scanners
I'm not being a curmudgeon, really. I'm going to keep scanning. But it is no
longer just recent books that publishers are putting into ebooks and
therefore bookshare. Several times when I found an old copy of a book that
is no longer in print in my collection that I thought, "this would be great
to scan for bookshare." But it turned out to be in the collection already as
a publisher provided book that went in recently.
Overall, I think it is a wonderful thing that publishers are going into
their backlists to put long out of print books out as ebooks because I'm
sighted but hardly read any real books, just ebooks. And at least from the
major publishers everything they put out as ebooks goes to bookshare as
well. So, I will just be hunting more diligently for those books that still
need to be scanned, because they are out there.
Misha
On 2/10/2017 11:33 AM, Evan Reese wrote:
Yes indeed! I've been burned a few times, most recently with a bunch
of books I bought over the past couple of years and intended to scan,
then the publisher put all of them, about a dozen or so, up in a few
days last October.
But I still have a whole lot of books here that don't seem likely to
get into the collection if I don't scan them, so I persevere. I enjoy
scanning, so as long as there are books Bookshare doesn't have, I'll
keep on keeping on.
Also, as you point out, Bookshare is the only place out there that
let's us, the members and volunteers, add to its collection. We can
choose what we want to scan, however narrow the interest might be.
That is one of the things I like best about Bookshare. I, and anyone
else who wants to scan and/or proofread, get a say in making books
accessible that are not available anywhere else for us to read.
Evan
-----Original Message----- From: tina sohl
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 2:18 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: free books for scanners
I was thinking about what Rick and others have said, and I think it's
important that we continue scanning if possible. Some people, like me,
have interests that may never get in to the collection othyerwise, and
if something interests me or you, and just one other person, then
scanning was worth it. I so much appreciate this about bookshare. WE
have input in to what's there, not just a librarian, like with NLS, or
editors, as with audible's content. JUst wanted to encourage others
scanning to keep doing so.
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