[bookshare-discuss] Re: Publisher Quality books
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 18:14:22 -0800 (PST)
Bob,
I think bookshare is going to change that. I've been
in contact with them about various problems expressed
here and that was one of them. Originally, the New
Books Added in the Browse Books had two categories
identified, the NIMAC books and the PQ books. After
unwittingly including all under PQ books in my email
list because I didn't realize they weren't separated,
I mentioned that. Now I know to check, so in my latest
lists I excluded the NIMAC books. I think they are
primarily--perhaps exclusively--textbooks and thus
identifiable from the titles, but I doublecheck. The
other books come, as I understand it, from
HarperCollins, and seem, as I said on my my last list,
to run the gamut from romance and children's books to
suspense and some nonfiction.
I think bookshare is going to separate the NIMAC from
the general PQ books, but how quickly, with CSUN
coming up, I don't know. If you'd like to receive my
nightly English-language books-added list, let me
know.
G.Cndy
--- Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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).
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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