[bookshare-discuss] Re: books downloaded

  • From: "Ana Jacob" <anajacob2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 08:36:14 -0500

You have a valid point... I get them not only to have them on hand for a rainy day, but it would be more trouble to try and remember the title of every book I wanted to one day go back and download. And even if you don't forget the title, it can still sometimes be hard to find a book again in a massive library such as bookshare has. But each to his own, these are just my thoughts on it. PS, I keep all my downloaded but unread books in one folder, one for bookshare and one for bard, that way it's easy to keep up with.

Ana Jacob
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 9:57 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: books downloaded


Back when I could see I tended to buy more books than I could read. When I saw one I tended to think that if I passed it up I might never come across it again. However, I just can't see downloading more books than I could ever possibly read. In the case of Bookshare, BARD and all the other on line sites from which I can download books, they are always there. They are not being taken away. I can use these sources as my own personal library and so I regard them as my own personal library. Downloading a book is like taking it down from the shelf of my personal library. Deleting it is like placing it back on the shelf because when and if I need it again I can always take it down, that is, download, it again. Taking more books off the shelf than I could possibly read would be bad housekeeping. It would be very messy. That is why I download a book when I am ready to read it and I am ready to read it when I have finished the last one. Hoarding something that is freely available wheneveryou want it does not quite make sense to me.


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----- Original Message ----- From: "traci" <season@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 9:42 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] books downloaded


Hi all
Wow! I am glad to discover that I am not the only one who downloads more than I may ever read. When I joined bookshare over two years ago, it was only a dream to be able to read books online since I had done the whole ebook disaster. I can actually laugh now when I think of all the different sites and programs I tried using to read Addicted by Zane. Never did read that one online! But once I got the library to help prove my disability and I got everything straight, I downloaded Ramona by Helen Hunt. I read this book when I was in Jr. High over a miserably cold and rainy Easter vacation and found the love story so great, so tragic, so rememberable that when I was thinking of a title to look for, it popped into my head. Who could forget Ramona and her Alessandro? The first book I read that I downloaded was Guilty by Karen Robards. To this date, I just did a check and I discovered I have downladed 156 titles. I even reread Little Women just because I could and yes, I cried when Beth seccummed to scarlet fever. Speaking of Scarlet! Hmm. Maybe its time I reread Gone With The Wind, my all time favorite classic!

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