[bookshare-discuss] Re: [other] Re: "Wolves of the Calla" problem
- From: "Lisa Leonardi" <lml5280@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:25:39 -0600
No, I wasn't the original submitter. I was just talking about sending the
complete file that I downloaded from bookshare a few months ago. Why is it
a copyright problem if I'm sending the file that I got from bookshare to a
bookshare member?
Lisa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 12:47 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: [other] Re: "Wolves of the Calla" problem
> Lisa,
>
> Were you the original submitter? If you were, you may wish to resubmit.
> Whether you are or not, I would recommend that you don't offer to send
files
> to individuals on this list or others. It's a copyright violation. We
> don't wanna get bookshare into trouble.
>
> Pratik
>
>
>
> Pratik Patel
> Interim Director
> Office of Special Services
> Queens College
> Director
> CUNY Assistive Technology Services
> The City University of New York
> ppatel@xxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisa Leonardi [mailto:lml5280@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 1:16 PM
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: [other] Re: "Wolves of the Calla" problem
>
> If you download it again, and it still doesn't work, let me know and I'll
> send you my complete file off-list.
>
> Lisa
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "boomerdad" <boomerdad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 12:35 AM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: [other] Re: "Wolves of the Calla" problem
>
>
> > Hmm. Maybe I'll try re-downloading it. ... Well, if it does turn out I
> did
> > something ... er ... not befitting one of my intelligence ... I shall
> > retract any and all venting with so much sheepishness as to elicit
> bleating
> > for miles around. ...
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lisa Leonardi" <lml5280@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:48 PM
> > Subject: [other] [bookshare-discuss] Re: "Wolves of the Calla" problem
> >
> >
> > > Boomerdad,
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what has happened when you downloaded this book. But I
> > > downloaded it a few months ago and was able to read it in its
entirety.
> > > There may have been a few garbled words here and there but the book
was
> > > complete.
> > >
> > > Lisa
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "boomerdad" <boomerdad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 2:54 AM
> > > Subject: [bookshare-discuss] "Wolves of the Calla" problem
> > >
> > >
> > >> Okay, this is getting ridiculous.
> > >> You all may remember my difficulty with Wizard and Glass, wherein a
> page
> > > of text was completely illegible and the whole book was double-spaced.
> So
> > > I
> > > simply submitted my own scan of the book. But now, I've found an even
> > > greater travesty with Wolves of the Calla, the next book in the
series.
> > >>
> > >> It isn't even halfway complete.
> > >>
> > >> I've been reading the book and realized I skipped a page from the
book
> > > when I scanned it, and having lent the book to a friend, I thought
> "Well,
> > > that's okay, Bookshare will come to my rescue!" I downloaded the
book,
> > > opened it, and tried to find my page--around page 504. Imagine my
> > > frustration to find that the book only went up to OpenBook page 218.
> I'm
> > > not sure what printed page that equals, because I didn't bother to
look
> > > ...
> > > but I did make sure it wasn't simply a case of a whoooole lot of
> material
> > > being on each page. It wasn't. I'd say there are no more than 300 of
> the
> > > 700+-page book in the bookshare file. How in the name of all the gods
> who
> > > do and don't exist did this get past validation?
> > >>
> > >> I'm sure glad I went ahead and bought the book, because if I'd relied
> on
> > > Bookshare I would've been extremely ticked off. Imagine getting 300
> pages
> > > into a story only to learn that there are 400 pages to go and you
can't
> > > finish it! Sheesh! As it is, I'm simply going to have to stop
reading
> > > for
> > > a few days till I get in touch with my friend and get the book back.
> > >>
> > >> I can resubmit my copy of the book, but I gotta tell ya, it isn't in
> > > Bookshare shape, because I knew the book was already on Bookshare so I
> > > didn't do what I normally do when I scan books for Bookshare--save the
> > > title
> > > page and page numbers and such. I can re-scan the title page, but I
am
> > > *not* going page by page and re-inserting page numbers. <Grin>
> > >>
> > >> Well, thanks for listening to me vent. I guess if I hope to
accomplish
> > > anything by this message besides venting, it's to ensure that people
be
> > > careful when validating books. I read elsewhere on this list there's
a
> > > back-log of books to be validated, and I just would caution people to
> not
> > > be
> > > so quick to validate that things get ... well ... sloppy. I
appreciate
> > > the
> > > time and effort people take to volunteer chunks of their lives to
> > > validating
> > > books, so please don't take the caution as a blast of any kind ... but
> you
> > > must admit, 400 missing pages is a bit ... peeving.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> >
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