[bksvol-discuss] Re: let disabled people know they can submit without being members

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:35:34 -0700 (PDT)

Katie, I think what you're submitting and validating
will earn you credits toward your next year's
membership. Unless things have changed, I think you're
allowed to accrue for one year ahead.

Cindy

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>  I now have my second but still
> keep submitting and
> validating. Bookshare is a wonderful resource. 
> 
> 
> Katie Hill 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of siss52
> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 6:08 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: let disabled people
> know they can submit
> without being members
> 
> 
> If I remember correctly, quite sometime ago Shelley
> posted that she 
> submitted until she had enough credits to pay for
> her first year's 
> subscription because she was a student and did not
> have the money to pay for
> 
> a subscription.  Is that right, Shelley, or is my
> memory failing me?  I do 
> not want to put words in your mouth.  <smile>
> 
> Sue S.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 7:43 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: let disabled people
> know they can submit 
> without being members
> 
> 
> I submitted a couple of books before paying my
> membership fee.  Perhaps you
> should ask these people where they got the idea that
> they couldn't.  It just
> didn't occur to me that I couldn't submit books
> before paying.  There's
> absolutely nothing anywhere on the site that even
> implies that you need to
> pay before submitting, only downloading.
> 
> I submitted books that I knew weren't in the
> collection.  Since I didn't
> know about the validation part at the time, I might
> have been wasting my
> time scanning books that were already out for
> validation or in the admin
> queue, but I apparently got lucky on that score. 
> Still, it would be good if
> members and nonmembers wanting to submit something
> could input a title and
> get a message back telling them if the book is out
> for validation, waiting
> for administrator approval, or not in the system at
> all.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 3:04 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: let disabled people
> know they can submit
> without being members
> 
> 
> > Seemed odd to me but I have heard it now from
> several blind folks.  Some
> > of them work for agencies and software
> manufacturers too so the feeling
> > must be widespread.  The part about haveing to be
> a member to search
> > worries me almost as much as the part about having
> to be a member to
> > submit.  I am also concerned that k1000 and
> bookshare do not work closely
> > together.  For instnace, it would be nice to
> somehow be able to input a
> > title before scanning it and search quickly for it
> in the bookshare
> > database even if you are not a member.  that way,
> someone new to scanning
> > can make sure the bookshare collection does not
> include the book before
> > beginning the process of scanning.
> >
> > How closely does bookshare work with the makers of
> scanning packages,
> > particularly those made for disabled users?
> >
> > E.
> >
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