[bksvol-discuss] Re: what's up with short summaries?
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- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:42:57 -0700 (PDT)
I recommend getting yourself put on John Immarino 's email list. I don't know
how gets the info but hopefully those problems won't carry over, or he can fix
them. Problems with the new books site last winter is what gave rise to his
listjohni2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cindy
Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned
list available at sites below
Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
Books Being Scanned List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
--- On Wed, 6/10/09, Kim Friedman <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Kim Friedman <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: what's up with short summaries?
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 9:25 AM
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> Hi,
> I've noticed that myself. Also, have you all noticed
> that if you're browsing to
> see what new books are added, there will be a lot of
> repetitions of the same
> books when you switch pages of browsed books. It's a
> bit of a slog to get beyond
> them to look at book synopses I haven't read. Regards,
> Kim aka
> Ellinder.
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> Of Amber
> Wallenstein
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] what's up with
> short summaries?
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> I love the tons of new
> books we're getting, but
> what is up with the short synopsis of almost every
> book? they cut off in
> the middles of sentences, even words. I'm not
> going to make a list of them
> because it's on almost every book. An example is:
> Synopsis: "In
> Translation is the parallel journey of two extraordinary
> travelers eight hundred
> years apart. Both are on personal voyages, both are
> looking
> for answers, both
> find inner peace.<P>A vision comes to
> seventeen-year-old
> Rosamund.
> Granted there is a . at
> the end of this but it just
> sounds unprofessional. I could find other examples,
> too.
> Just looks unprofessional,
> IMO.
> Amber
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> Book blog:
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