Thank you Dr. Cross, yours has been a Thorough treatment of the matter at hand" or is it a "compact biography?" of me. Thank goodness it is not a "Love Inspired Romance". Guido Dante Corona IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx. Research Division, Phone: 512. 838. 9735. Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.ibm.com/able "Kenneth A. Cross" <crossk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 12/29/2004 01:49 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss To <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Re: txt page breaks redux I want to support Mary's comments. Not only is Guido vigorously trying to impose his standards, but he has made this a very unpleasant list with which to be associated. He routinely downs other volunteers, forgetting that we, too, are customers as well as volunteers, but he also wastes list bime with humor which is very often off point. That might even be okay, but express a view with which he disagrees, and suddenly your entire personality is suspect. You are discussing things which have already been resolved, even though he might be the only one who thinks so. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 1:33 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: txt page breaks redux > Guido, > Here's a thought. Since there are lots of books on the download page which are not in the txt format, and since there are people willing to work on those which you find unredeemable and others who would be > interested in reading cleaned up versions of same, why don't you concentrate on the better quality or at least the non txt items rather than imposing your standards on the whole of BookShare, especially in the > absence of word from the powers that be regarding this issue? > In a note to Kelly, you wondered rhetorically what part of the words pride of work people don't understand. In turn, I wonder what gives you the right to grant yourself the authority to set standards which BookShare > itself simply has not set. This whole problem can be avoided if you just set the selection of books on step one to be viewed to something other than all formats, e.g. kes or rtf. > There is room for interpretation with respect to the "readability" standard. But until BookShare comes out with a guideline regarding this whole page break business that will supercede what Marissa said before the > Christmas break, I'd say your position on the page break issue is more like disregard of present policy rather than pride of work. > I sure hope the staff at BookShare reaches consensus soon on this issue and then, let us all live with that decision, whatever it may be. > Mary > > >