Well, when I click on my absolute favorite link which is the books
most read, then I get the list of the top downloaded books, I had
found several with reviews and it would even say where the review
was from, like School Library Journal, Chicago Tribune, etc. I was
curious about who was doing so many of these so I clicked on the
title and then clicked on the submitter's name and it was a Benetech
email address and if you looked at everything that person had
submitted, a majority of it had reviews instead of a synopsis.
Jaya is the person with the Benetech email address:
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/UserInfo.html?userid=33666>http://www.bookshare.org/web/UserInfo.html?userid=33666
There was another person with an India email address who also had a
great many of his or her submissions with reviews instead of a
synopsis as well.
That user submitted 153 books, you can see them:
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/UserInfo.html?userid=31129>http://www.bookshare.org/web/UserInfo.html?userid=31129
and about 20% of them use a quoted review instead of a synopsis so
either or both the submitter and validator are using reviews instead
of a synopsis.
Even a book that Carrie submitted has quoted information in the synopsis:
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=43261>http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=43261
So maybe Bookshare has revised their policy on using reviews. If you
look at the long synopsis you'll find hundreds of them that use reviews.
Jamie in Michigan
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