Another thing is that many of the books are not categorized properly at
least when first added, so will not show up in the categories.
Sharon
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Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 7:25 PM
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Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: What happened to fiction?
Hello,
Well, I wasn't sure how to answer you, but you made a reference in a later
posting to "new books." So I went there to investigate, and, "thousands of
technical books", indeed! No wonder you're frustrated. I don't mean to ask
the obvious, but since I can't know just from what you've said: is this
where you've been looking all of your time with Bookshare, and if so, did
there used to be a lot more (or even mostly) fiction? That would be quite a
contrast to what I found there. (I'm often curious as to how a lot of these
very specific books dealing with science, medicine or engineering would
translate or even be displayed in a straightforward way for a non-sighted
readership; but I read Braille exclusively, in the BRF format, so I guess
some of the DAISY books, essecially with images or text, would get around
some of this.)
Anyway: I have a suggestion, and if you're already familiar with this, then
I'm out of ideas. You probably know that the Bookshare homepage has a
"Browse" link which, among other options, lets you do so "by subject
category", and there are 48 of them. The "Literature and Fiction" alone has
something like
210,000 titles, and there are other "sub-genres" besides (Horror, Humor,
Romance, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Westerns.) There might be more.
Within any one of those: it will of course give you a large list starting
with results "1 through 25." You can customize your search with up to 100
results per page but, maybe more helpful for you, you can also choose the
list option "by date added." All results will then go from the oldest to
newest.
If you then "go to last page", and save that page as a favorite, you can
always come back to it directly to find the newest results in whatever
category you've chosen, and they will just be added to automatically as more
books come in. There's still a lot to wade through, but at least it narrows
the search. (It's interesting how people's preferences are so different.
John, who first answered you, almost never uses this service for fiction,
while it's almost all I look for and, as someone said, "there's more than I
could read in ten lifetimes." And because I'm so Braille-oriented, I seldom
use BARD unless it's an audiobook by a writer I really like that I can't
read any other way-I don't like much of their Braille and I really dislike
UEB, although I can read it if I must.) Also: the Fiction category I follow
lately has what strikes me as way too many titles involving vampires,
werewolves, zombies, etc. They don't offend me, just don't interest me, but
I've been having what sounds like the same reaction you were to all the
nonfiction: "what, more of this?"
Like so much in life, this is all relative.
So, I hope that helps. If you need to know more specifics, let me know.
Andy
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