[bookshare-discuss] Re: see long synopsis a waste and frustrating
- From: lana <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 01:12:41 -0800
it won't buy you dessert
but this reader thanks you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2008/04/16 04:12:57
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: see long synopsis a waste and frustrating
>
>
> Dear Sue,
>
> It's fun for me to try and cram as much information in 200 characters or
> less as possible, especially since Word does the counting for me. As I drum
> up ways to substitute shorter synonyms and cast out unnecessary words, I
> feel as if I'm writing a poem. Many forms of poetry have arbitrary rules
> like lines a and c and lines b and d must rhyme, or there must be two
> examples of alliteration per line or the poem must be in iambic pentameter.
> I'm no poet, but I enjoy thinking of my short synopses as little poems.
>
> I'd love helping you sheer your short synopses down to size. I do my best
> and try to write clearly, but I'm not even close to being an expert. I
> couldn't earn a living writing them. My best hope is that some year a
> Booksharian will offer to buy me dessert in appreciation for a dozen or so
> synopses I've written. Even then it will be after I've paid for their dinner
> in appreciation for the scanning they've done for me, or for their computer
> help.
>
> Always with love,
>
> Lissi
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Susan Mangis" <suemangis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:55 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: see long synopsis a waste and frustrating
>
>
> >I would like to say that on occasion I have had to say see long synopsis
> > because, I couldn't write enough in the small synopsis to make any sense.
> > I
> > only do that when I can't make it short enough to submit a book after
> > several attempts when it says it's too long.
> >
> > Sue Mangis
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Allison Hilliker [mailto:hillikera@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 5:49 PM
> > To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: see long synopsis a waste and frustrating
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Bookshare is definitely working to make synopses as high quality as
> > possible. I've written about 130 of them in the past week because
> > well-represented books are very important to me.
> >
> > I have a question for you all. Do you mind it if a book has a tiny
> > description and then a referral to the long synopsis? It would look
> > something like this.
> > "Bob goes to the store and gets abducted by aliens. See long synopsis."
> > I made that one up of course. I don't hink Bob has been abducted by
> > aliens
> > recently. <smile>. In any case, is that scenario good by you all? I
> > normally try
> > to avoid the statement see long synopsis, but once in a while I find a
> > plot
> > that fights me and resists being put into a little box. So I compromise
> > as
> > in the example
> > above. What do you think?
> >
> > BTW, while I'm writing, thanks to Bob for his synopsis-writing help. He's
> > been incredible!
> >
> > Best,
> > Allison Hilliker:
> > Bookshare.org intern.
> > allison.h@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:47 AM
> > Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: see long synopsis a waste and frustrating
> >
> >
> >>I want to second this opinion. I hate "see long synopsis" descriptions
> >>almost as much as I hate the "none" designation.
> >>
> >> A synopsis is usually easy to write even if you haven't read the entire
> >> book. I've been assisting Allison Hiliker in writing synopses for
> >> publisher quality books, and believe me, it's easy, and can be fun. I've
> >> found several of those books I'd like to read, not because of the title
> >> or
> >> author, but because of the short descriptions I find on the internet.
> >>
> >> The short synopsis is a way to advertise your work. It introduces a
> >> reader
> >> to the writing skills of the authors, and the patience and care of the
> >> submitter and validator. (That's us folks.). Gone are the days when any
> >> scanned book was admirable, because books were so valuable. Now, books
> >> are
> >> valuable for themselves... what they have to say ... what they make us
> >> think. And, I, for one, consider it an honor to introduce my fellow
> >> readers to these valuable products of our efforts, and I want to do them
> >> justice. And, "see long synopsis" doesn't do them justice, in my opinion.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >> Bob
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 6:42 PM
> >> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] see long synopsis a waste and frustrating
> >>
> >>
> >>> Dear Booksharian Friends,
> >>>
> >>> Those words, "See long synopsis," which appeared on several titles on
> >>> Sunday's new books list frustrate and annoy me every time I read them.
> >>> From yesterday's list I uploaded 6 books but none of my choices had
> >>> those
> >>> dreaded words in their descriptions.
> >>>
> >>> Your valuable volunteer and staff efforts have given me so many
> >>> wonderful, usually unexpected, books to read, I don't take time from my
> >>> volunteering reading, and real life to look up titles that refer me to
> >>> the long synopsis.
> >>>
> >>> I also don't punish myself either to make a point by failing to read
> >>> books I recognize that I like whose authors or titles I already know,
> >>> just because the submittor and validator didn't take time to write any
> >>> kind of helpful short synopsis for them. But, If I'm not familiar with
> >>> the book, I don't bother to track down a long synopsis. If volunteers
> >>> can't be bothered to write a helpful short synopsis, I conclude they
> >>> don't care much about that book and don't waste unnecessary time finding
> >>> out about it because I think it has a good chance of not being carefully
> >>> prepared.
> >>>
> >>> If a volunteer cares about a book, you'd think she or he would want
> >>> others to benefit from their work. You'd think they would hope many
> >>> readers will select their book and it will be widely read. Why put your
> >>> own book in the seconds bin by not writing an inviting and/or
> >>> informative
> >>> short synopsis for it? The short synopsis is the book's best publicity.
> >>>
> >>> In other discussions some volunteers have used the excuse that they
> >>> can't
> >>> write a long synopsis because they haven't read the book. By my personal
> >>> work standards That already shows a considerable amount of lack of
> >>> caring. However given the volunteer isn't planning to read the book,
> >>> this
> >>> excuse still doesn't hold up. Why not formulate a short synopsis by
> >>> summarizing that famous long synopsis to which they direct potential
> >>> readers. It wouldn't take too long to dash out some brief high points
> >>> mentioned in that long synopsis. It's only 200 characters or less we're
> >>> hoping for.
> >>>
> >>> I'll always appreciate everyone's work and am not targeting an
> >>> individual
> >>> since I didn't look up any of these books to identify the volunteers who
> >>> write "See long synopsis." I wouldn't dream of trying to manipulate the
> >>> volunteer community or the staff to weigh in on this issue or to
> >>> institute major changes according to my personal guidelines and desires.
> >>> It's my hope that expressing my opinion might result in some books in
> >>> the
> >>> future being given the more detailed short synopses they deserve. And if
> >>> that happens or not, at least I've expressed my feelings.
> >>>
> >>> I assume all of us have the good of Bookshare at heart. I've written
> >>> this
> >>> pointed and fervent message from the perspective of both a volunteer and
> >>> a reader who loves Bookshare. I'm stating my opinion to encourage
> >>> volunteers to try a little harder to attract readers to their books and
> >>> to make book browsing more satisfying to me.
> >>>
> >>> Always with love,
> >>>
> >>> Lissi
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