[bksvol-discuss] Re: more questions, my how things change

From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 18:09:55 -0700 (PDT)
I don't that tthey'rre actually required by bookshare, but would-be readers of 
the book really want them. As a proofreader, if the scanner hasn't provided one 
or I don't think it is accurate I replace it.

Cindy

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--- On Thu, 6/4/09, Donna Goodin <goodindo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Donna Goodin <goodindo@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: more questions, my how things change
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> Date: Thursday, June 4, 2009, 7:23 AM
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> This is helpful to know,
> Evan.  I probably wouldn’t have deleted
> content that Bookshare had added, so thanks for letting me
> know that you do
> this.  I’ll definitely keep it in mind, and pay
> attention to whether the synopsis
> that is filled in is helpful or not.  I still think it’d
> be nice for this to be
> more standardized, i.e. for the submitter to know whether a
> synopsis will be
> needed prior to submitting. 
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> Basically, what I've found
> that they sometimes do is just put in whatever part of the
> long synopsis will
> fit into the short synopsis. This is not very good because
> the long synopsis is
> written to explain what the book is about in a longer form;
> so just snipping
> out part of it for the short synopsis often creates
> something that is much less
> informative than one that is written with the length limit
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> synopsis in mind. Sometimes, it makes for a short synopsis
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> informative at all. I always delete those and write my own
> short synopsis. I
> did that on the last book I submitted because all they did
> was insert the
> beginning of the long synopsis, which was about how great
> the author was. (I
> happen to agree that the author is great, but that
> doesn't tell anyone what the
> book is about. So I wrote my own short synopsis, and I also
> removed the
> "how great the author is" section from the long
> synopsis because I
> think it should be more about substance than publisher
> hype--even if, as I
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> Hi all, 
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> Having just submitted a book, I have some more
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> 1.        When the book
> was submitted, I
> noticed that the synopses were not what I had written, or
> rather that what I
> wrote had been tacked onto the end
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> of other text.  Do we still need to fill in the long
> and short synopsis
> fields?
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> Second, How do we indicate to Bookshare that a book should
> be held for someone?
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