Paul, not Mo, but I recall Mo's posting and I think it was with one book that he had the problem. I learned from someone also that BCAB members get a discount to OverDrive subscription. Personally my local Council pay the full price for me so no money out of my pocket but I think this could be construed as a form of discrimination within a Class of people, should people be forced to join BCAB for perks? I think that the service should be free to all blind people and where it is not free, I do not think that groups of blind people shuld get reduction in subscription. I wonder do RNIB staff get a reduction also?
Eleanor----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Warner" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 10:48 AMSubject: [access-uk] RNIB Overdrive - Faults in conversion from Daisy to Overdrive format
I think it was Mo who posted a while back that some titles borrowed from the new Overdrive service were jumbled due to errors at conversion to the new format. I have read a few titles without detecting any such problems until I started on 'A History of Eastern Europe', a tome which apparently takes 62 hours at normal speed - or maybe not...At the beginning of the book, the authors provide a detailed table of contents and then a summary of important events with respective dates before the preface and chapter 1. I found that the reading of the table of contents and the summary was often in the wrong order and some parts were even repeated. Skipping past the irrelevant bits, it soon became apparent that some parts of later chapters had found their way into the first part of the book, rendering the whole thing unreadable. I have advised the Overdrive service in the hope that they will reconvert the book.Having recently transferred my subscription from Daisy to Overdrive, I am now a bit nervous that I might find part way through a book that there are sections out of order, repeated or even missing. I can't be sure that the next book I read will be correct. Anyone else experiencing this?Paul ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
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