[bookshare-discuss] Re: What happened to fiction?

  • From: Karen Lewellen <klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:33:52 -0400 (EDT)

Well, speaking only for myself, I have no issues finding loads of fiction at Bookshare.
for me nls and bookshare can work in harmony as I find items in one that I do not find in the other. further nls does not provide text and bookshare does.
still, your idea of fiction and mine may be different. likewise our methods of searching.
Kare


On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, lana wrote:

       Depends on the kind of fiction you like. Bookshare has given me tuns and 
tuns more than Bard, though the latter???s reading experience is more pleasant.

From: JOHN HUFFMAN
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 9:17 AM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: What happened to fiction?

As a personal comment,



I don???t rely on Bookshare for fiction, except in very rare cases.  I???ve 
actually told friends that there???s more fiction on BARD and at NLS in general 
than I could read in ten lifetimes.  .  Where I have found Bookshare worth the 
membership is in the realms of history, biography and religion.  Many such 
books are likely to make their way into an NLS catalog belatedly, if at all.



Again, this is purely a personal view, and we each have our own.



Cheers! JH





From: lana [mailto:lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 10:26 AM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] What happened to fiction?



       It???s nice that bookshare has so many nonfiction books which must be 
helpful for professionals, and I understand that some publishers dump books on 
us for reasons of their own, but where did the fiction go, and how do I find it 
among thousands of technical books? Where is the Bookshare I have known and 
loved for years?

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