Actually, I'm probably making an ass of myself for asking for more email, but a nightly list of newly added books does sound interesting. Would you please add me to this list?
Incidentally, if I can ever help you in developing your lists, please don't hesitate to ask. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 8:14 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Publisher Quality books
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 >> -- > Ann K. Parsons> Portal Tutoring > EMAIL: akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.portaltutoring.info > "All that is gold does not glitter, > Not all those who wander are lost." > > Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. 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