[bksvol-discuss] Re: solution for The Broker (sort of)
- From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:08:25 -0800
I completely concur with this sentiment.
NLS books are great when you want to read a book for pleasure, no crime in
that, but almost impossible to use as a resource for research, study, or
work.
If Bookshare is to target schools and students, it absolutely must not limit
the ability to use these books in that context.
How is one to reference a page number if there are none?
I have a massive number of history monographs and books that any fledgling
historian or interested reader would love to have, but I am not keen on
having the titles less functional than they could be.
Brian Miller
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From: "Kellie Hartmann" <kellhart@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 9:47 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: solution for The Broker (sort of)
> I would like to see the stripper seriously revamped, or, barring that,
> removed. The fact that NLS books don't have page numbers is what often
makes
> them useless for anything except straight pleasure reading. I of all
people
> have nothing against straight pleasure reading, which I do entirely too
much
> of, but really I don't see why Bookshare should emulate one of NLS's least
> desirable characteristics. I don't like dealing with strings of junk
> characters that are the scrambled version of the headers, but I really do
> want page numbers. The idea of embedding them in some kind of tag would be
> great. The thing is, Bookshare has a category for textbooks, but if
they're
> not navigable they're almost worse than useless. I would be extremely
> disgusted if there were an excellent quality version of a textbook I
needed
> on Bookshare but I couldn't use it simply because its page numbers were
> stripped. I don't even have a reader, and the idea of needing one because
of
> something like this is worse than aggravating. After all, one thing
> Bookshare can give its members is greater independence in accessing
printed
> materials. Let's not let an overzealous header stripper deprive us of that
> independence and downgrade the quality of the collection.
>
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