[bookshare-discuss] Re: Publisher Quality books
- From: "rita weyler" <ritaweyler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 08:47:41 -0500
What are nima books?
Ritac
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From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 8:24 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Publisher Quality books
Ann, I agree with everything that you say, but I still have a complaint.
*smile, some people are never happy.*
My complaint is that bookshare is mixing up the nimac books (not readable
by most of the people on this list) and publisher quality books, readable
by everyone on this list, if they take the time and effort to do it. In
fact, I've read a number of the publisher quality books, and choose them
whenever possible because of their lack of errors.
However, I'm fairly sure that the number of nimac books is going to
increase in the near (very near) future, and I think bookshare should work
out a way to filter out the nimac books as soon as possible. This should
be a fairly easy task to do as they already have a method of
distinguishing between nimac books and publisher quality books. They have
to do that to keep us from reading them. It's just a matter of priority.
Bob (the original curmudgeon).
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From: "Ann Parsons" <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 6:19 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Publisher Quality books
Hi all,
Now, Brian, you either haven't been checking the list of new books, or
you haven't been paying attention to the threads here.
One, the Synopses issue has been solved. Allison is working on that, and
if you see a book that doesn't have one, a synopsis, you can send it to
her.
Two, portability is possible, if you discover that a PQ book can't be
read by your favorite portable device, convert it! Don't sit around, be
proactive! Convert to HTML then to TXT. You can place a TXT file in any
kind of device: notetaker, PDA, cell phone, DOS computer, Linux computer
(both laptop and desktop) Windows 9x 2000 XP and Vista (both laptop and
desktop). Mr. Glass assures us that the engineers are working hard to
smooth out the wrinkles in this process, and they need time vto do that.
So, my friend, iffin you want a PQ book, download it and convert it. It
really only takes about five minutes. Shoot, folks, when you consider
that against not having the book at all or having to wait two years to
have the book read by NLS, I do believe that the perspective will become
self evident.
Oh, now, I'm not letting the Bookshare staff off the hook by any means.
It is their job to figure out the solution to the format issues, but I'm
prepared to wait a reasonable amount of time for it to happen.
Just a personal note here. I was walking into Church Choir rehearsal on
Wednesday night and struck up a conversation with one of the other
sopranos about the book I'm currently validating. Oh, yes, she said.
That's her newest book isn't it, came out late last year. Now folks,
when has that happened to you? That, my friends, is a total rush for me!
I used to sit smiling at dinner tables and in other gatherings while
people around me discussed the latest books. Now, *I* can do it too!
That, I am afraid puts things into perspective for me pretty darn quick.
Ann P.
Original message:
All,
I can't understand how one is supposed to use these books if they are
not
portable in any way... Are they strictly for desktop reading? Very
puzzling, and very frustrating.
And then the lack of synopsies... Whew! Very frustrating.
Brian Miller
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