[bookshare-discuss] Re: Looking for old lists of new books
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 21:28:39 -0800 (PST)
As far as I know, you can't just browse the collection
to see what books have been added; you have to look
for specific books. Maybe you can search by copyright
date, but--can you search by date added to the
collection?
You can browse the recent books lists but (1) lately
they haven't been up to date, and (2) with the new
site there seem to me only the last 3 months' worth of
books added.
For some reason, a lot of people seem to save the
books-added lists I send out. I know they like to look
them over because seeing what the new books are they
sometimes find something they hadn't thought of
reading and then they download them. I know that in
preparing my lists I've found some children's books
that I'd never heard of that I've gone and bought for
my granddaughter or, where they are no longer in
print, I've borrowed from the library. There are Young
Adult books that I wish my adult children were young
enough to read so I could read them, too (I know--I
can still read them and I have borrowed a couple of
them from the library. Fortunately, since my
librarians know I proofread for bokshare, they don't
raise eyebrows when I take out a YA or children's
book).
BTW, I saw a promo for a movie that's being made from
the book The Man Who Walked Between the Towers; I
thought some of you who have read the book might be
interested.
Cindy
--- Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I am not going to take a position one way or another
> on whether you should do
> this. I will just say that I don't see the point. If
> these new books added
> lists are so old then they are not new books added
> anymore and can just be found
> by browsing the main collection or searching it or
> by any other means that
> you might look for books in the collection.
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> Hi again,
>
> I can now say that I have a bunch from Brenda from
> what appears to be
> August to October, but I haven't gotten them all in
> chronological order
> yet. I also saw a couple from the end of July. Now
> I'm thinking that
> maybe I should put them up on a special web site for
> others in my
> position, specifically that they don't want to go to
> the Bookshare site
> but don't want to miss anything either. Now since
> the Bookshare site is
> acting weird and won't offer new books going back
> indefinitely, it might
> help to provide a reference for as far back as
> possible. I of course
> don't want to cause problems with the Bookshare
> staff and there isn't
> much point if such a site wouldn't be used. I've
> found a way to get
> Cindy's lists that she emails automatically posted
> with no work on her
> part so they would show up on the web site as soon
> as the email is
> received. Any thoughts? It would be a private site
> using Wordpress, a
> popular blogging package. It would also offer rss
> feeds and a search
> for people wanting to keep up that way, but no
> comments. It wouldn't be
> listed in general search engines, it would be
> intended for Bookshare
> users and volunteers. Obviously I don't want to
> upset Cindy or the
> staff. I understand there might be rights issues
> with posting such
> lists on other sites.
>
> Again, Brenda gets a big thanks for sending me
> several lists that I was
> missing. Thank you Brenda!
>
> Cindy Rosenthal wrote:
> > I'll just add that the reason he's asking for
> lists
> > from before Nov. is that I'm sending the ones
> since
> > but I've deleted all those for previous months.
> >
> > CIndy
> >
> > --- Bookshare Volunteer <bookshare@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Do any of you have old lists of new books added
> to
> >> Bookshare dating
> >> before November? I understand that the new site
> >> allows searching for
> >> the past three months, but from what I've read,
> that
> >> doesn't always work
> >> like it's supposed to. Also, I like Cindy's
> lists
> >> because they seem to
> >> have more detail than the standard Bookshare site
> >> does. If you have
> >> email from her from before November or if you
> happen
> >> to have saved old
> >> lists, that would be appreciated. Please send
> them
> >> to
> >> bookshare@xxxxxxxxxxxxx There is no size limit
> on
> >> attachments so you
> >> can send them that way if you want or I can
> provide
> >> ftp upload
> >> instructions. Thank you very much. The reason
> I'm
> >> asking is that I
> >> haven't been on Bookshare regularly since about
> June
> >> or July and the new
> >> site doesn't have the same advanced search as
> >> before. It used to be
> >> that I could leave the title and author empty and
> >> the advanced search
> >> would show me all new books going back to the
> >> beginning. Now that
> >> doesn't work, a title or author is required. As
> I
> >> said, the new books
> >> list on the site only goes back three months and
> >> I've been gone longer
> >> than that. I have a big backlog already and
> haven't
> >> had time to look
> >> since about the summer. Again, thanks for any
> help
> >> in finding the old
> >> lists.
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