I agree with all that's been said here. I can not! use bookshare books for
my research purposes. It's a shame too, because there are a lot of great
texts on Bookshare I can't use.
Amber
"I don't want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life.
I
want you to miss appointments, burn dinner, skip your homework. I want you
to tell your wife to take that moonlight stroll on the beach at Waikiki
with
the resort tennis pro while you read a few more chapters." ~ Stephen King
e-mail: awallens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 12:14 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: page numbers and student contest
I totally agree. I find that some titles I download have page numbers still
in tact, but the number that don't is surprising.
I have been a member since July of last year and have grown to enjoy reading
the lists and working my way through books to submit. I'd have to say the
one thing that has made me the most annoyed is the header stripper. I'd
rather have the page numbers in tact and listen to the headers than have
nothing. I'm not sure why this issue isn't being addressed by staff on the
list. Perhaps they are looking at it in house, but I'm assuming they aren't
because they've not made an effort to mention it here.
If BookShare staff are convinced that the majority of users don't want page
numbers/headers (I'm inclined to think the opposite) then please move the
stripper tool into the unpack utility. Let the user choose whether or not
he/she wants to remove that information. Then everybody is happy. Now yes
that takes somebody's time to add the necessary code to the utility and
would require a new download of the tool by users wishing to utilize the new
feature but in the long run I see it as being useful.
Bookshare could become an even better place and appeal more and more to the
students if the time was taken to address this matter. I'm really going to
hate it if/when I'm put in a position similar to Shelly's.
Now I'm going to get off of my soap box folks, just thought I'd way in on the thing I consider to be the least best factor about bookshare. I say least best because I think the system is great otherwise <grin>
jake
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Quinn" <quinns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:51 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: page numbers and student contest
The print page numbers are eliminated because for whatever reason, the bookshare staff is reluctant to let go of the header stripper. I agree that in view of the fact that most of us have expressed our frustration with the results, someone should attend to the matter.
Pam
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