[bookshare-discuss] e: Re: How Many NLS Members? (was) Re: Bad scan Wheel of Time 3

From: Stacey Robinson <stacey.robinson1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:39:45 -0600

Shannon, I agree with everything you have said. I to have been a member of NLS since I was a child. I am 30 now. I love bookshare. You can get books much faster through bookshrare than nls sometimes. If I had wanted to wait to read the last book in Jan Karon's Mitford series through NLS I could havebut I'd still be waiting. I was able to get it from bookshare as soon asit was scanned. It's not availible through NLS yet. Stacey and Amigo

----- Original Message ----- From: "Shannon A. Reece" <shazza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:47:24 -0800 Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: How Many NLS Members? (was) Re:

Bad scan Wheel of Time 3

Evanwhile you are totally right in saying that many books are

available from

both Bookshare andNLS, in most all cases Bookshare can get new

books much

faster than NLS. Let's take The Motive by John Lescroart. While

it is now

available on NLS, Bookshare had it several months ago. I love

John

Lescroart and the only reason I chose to wait for the book

through NLS is

because my favorite narator is reading it and he's worth the

wait. If a

narator whom I do not like was reading the NLS copy, I would have

read it

from Bookshare. To imply or feel or say that books which are now

or may be

in future available through NLS should not be scanned for

Bookshare is

wrong, in my very humble opinion. Some people, like our very own

Julie,

don't do talking books. It doesn't matter why she doesn't use

Talking

books/cassettes, she does not and this is her own personal

choice. Why

should she be deprived of books through Bookshare, where she may

read them

in her media of choice, which is Braille in our Julie's case. I wanted to read the latest Tes Gerritsen book, Vanish, which

still isn't

available through NLS though it is inprocess with a book number,

and didn't

want to wait. for NLS to get it out. I read it through Bookshare

and don't

plan on reading it through NLS. So for me, I have choices--a

choice to wait

for The Motive through NLS because of my favorite narrator--a

choice to read

Vanish as soon as it is available through Bookshare. Now if you really feel that you want to scan books for Bookshare

that cannot

be gotten anywhere else, by all means go for it. I mean what you

do for

Bookshare is your choice and whether I read books or not, I thank

God every

time I see the new books page for Bookshare because I have more

books at my

disposal--books I don't have to return and can take my time in

reading.

These are just one old lady's thoughts. I've been with NLS since

I was 7.

I am now 46. I love NLS. NLS, as my daughter says, "rocks my

socks." I

would never ever give up my NLS, but Bookshare is one more way of

getting

more of what I love, books. Shannon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 9:36 AM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] How Many NLS Members? (was) Re: Bad

scan Wheel

of Time 3

This reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask: Does

anyone here

have any idea what proportion of Bookshare members are NLS

members? I was

reminded because _The Dragon Reborn_ as well as all the other

Wheel of

Time
books except _Knife of Dreams_ are available from NLS.

I would expect that anyone eligible for Bookshare membership

should be

eligible for NLS membership except for people who are not U.S.

citizens?

Are there any other categories of people who can get Bookshare

but not

NLS?
Are there people who can get NLS but not Bookshare?

I am curious because there are some really great books which are

not on

Bookshare which are available from NLS. If the number of

Bookshare

members
who are not - or cannot be - NLS members is very small, then I

don't know

whether it would be worth the time and effort to scan books that

are

already
available there. But if - for whatever reason - a substantial

minority -

I
don't know what fraction that would be exactly - aren't able to

get books

from NLS, then these books should be scanned even though they

are

available
there. My first inclination is to want to put up books which

aren't

available anywhere else, either NLS or RFB& D; RFB&D I don't think should count, though, but perhaps it

should? I

don't
know. But I would be willing to scan some books that I feel

should be

accessible and put them up here if there are a lot of people who

can't get

them from NLS. Sorry, but I'm not inclined to do it just for

people who

simply prefer reading in Braille, though. I'm an avid Braille

reader

myself, but if something is already available on tape, then

that's how I

read it.

There are already quite a few books up here which are recorded

from NLS,

maybe because people didn't know they were available, or because

they

didn't
want to wait the inordinate amount of time NLS seems to take. I

have

submitted books for that reason myself. But books that are

already

available from NLS and which are not yet on Bookshare are the

ones I'm

talking about, or, in the case of _The Dragon Reborn_, books

which seem to

have quality problems.

Thanks for any insights. I would imagine this has been

discussed here

before. I would expect that the issue of duplicating work done

by other

services has been brought up here, but it was before my time.

If so,

sorry
for bringing it up again, but maybe someone could give me the

gist of what

the thinking was about this.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Baechler" <bookshare@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 12:19 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Bad scan Wheel of Time 3

Hello all,

I've noticed that The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan apparently

needs

work. It is book 3 in the Wheel of Time series. I've finished

the

first
two books and liked them but book 3 is difficult to read at

best. The

scan is OK but the words run together without spaces. Often

there will

be
a word, period to indicate the sentence end, and another word

with no

space. Sometimes I just get clumps of letters which I suppose

are

supposed to be words but I can't figure them out. Would someone

look

into
this and possibly rescan? Maybe someone on the volunteer list

can help.

It looks like a great book if it was more readable. Be warned,

it's

huge
though!

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