[access-uk] Re: RNIB Overdrive - Faults in conversion from Daisy to Overdrive format
- From: "Iain Lackie" <ilackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 11:21:59 -0000
Hi Paul
I recently downloaded Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. The brief description
of the book was followed by a long silence. It was akin to borrowing a book
and finding that pages had been torn out. Like you, I have reported the
matter. I was told it would be fixed but haven't heard any further. With the
old Book Streaming service, you could at least be sure that you would get
the whole book and there was also the bonus of full DAISY navigation. I
think this whole library thing has been shockingly managed as in addition to
having a lack of trust in the quality of Overdrive book transfers, we also
have an online Talking Book catalogue which is not being updated until an as
yet unknown date when the long-promised and much-vaunted new catalogue
system eventually becomes available.
Iain
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Warner
Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 10:48 AM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [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
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