Dear Brenda and Volunteer Friends,
Always with love,
Yes, I think we should be able to browse for books in Spanish and books in English. I'm not a staff member of Bookshare,but I'd say let's give the staff and programmers a chance to work this out. First they'll have to read these messages and figure out if this site can be programmed that way.
Brenda Mueller----- Original Message -----From: kagey <kageylucy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:38:32 -0500
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] e: Re: SEPARATE PAGES FOR BOOKS IN ENGLISH, BOOKS IN SPANISH, AND BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
Hello Listers, Lucky those Spanish persons who can join Bookshare for nothing. How about someone from Bookshare support composing a grant so that readers who use English books could receive a discount on their membership or a free membership. And I do not believe that you addressed my suggesttion that you divide the new books added into three sections: English, children, and Spanish books. Grant or no grant: all of our time is valuable. knowledge. lueders kageylucy%sbcglobalsionet
ENGLISH, BOOKS IN SPANISH, AND BOOKS FOR CHILDREN----- Original Message ----- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:10:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: SEPARATE PAGES FOR BOOKS IN
If you go to Jake's site and bookmark it, you can easily access books added in English each day without looking at the Spanish.
Perhaps you wrote this before reading Janice's explanation about the grant that provided for the books and for memberships to be given free to Spanish-speakers who qualify. Unfortunately, no one has given a grant to provide books for English-language readers.
Remember, too, that many Spanish-speaking children are learning English in school but also need to read in their own language while they're doing it.
Cindy
--- kath lueders <kageylucy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi BookShare Listers,
I am annoyed at the percentage of books in Spanish added to our collection verses those books in English added. I am sorry, but I truly believe that when someone from another country chooses to live in America, then that person needs to learn the English language. I always thought that was the native language of the U.S.A. After all, as a person who is blind, I have had to learn to type, at a very early age, because the world around me was a print world. Further, if I wanted to complete my studies, and a book was not available in Braille or recorded form, I had to hire a reader; or scan it into my computer. If I want to access printed food labels, I need to bring along a person who is sighted, or I need to buy a bar-code scanner. I just do not understand why I have joined BookShare for fifty dollars per year when the majority of books added on Monday were not in English. Further, my time is valuable. Why do I need to arrow down through all these Spanish titles or titles for children! Might I suggest: let's have three sections of newly added books: one for books in English, another for Books in Spanish, and a third for books primarily read by children.
K. G. Lueders kageylucy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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