[bksvol-discuss] Re: A bit of a complaint
- From: Lisa Friendly <lisaf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:04:41 -0700
The solution is to get them digitally from publishers and that is what we¹re
working on. Hopefully we won¹t be scanning too many textbooks.
If you ever need one for a specific class, let us know. We can start by
trying to get it from the publisher.
Lisa
On 8/28/07 1:47 PM, "Sharon" <mt281820@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Textbooks are difficult to scan when they have tables, sidebars, pictures,
> captions, weird column layouts, graphs, etc. Sharon
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Monica Willyard
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:25 AM
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A bit of a complaint
>>
>> I've been thinking about what many of you have said. I can see both sides
>> of this issue to a point. It leads me to some questions. Is it the nature
>> of textbooks that they will scan poorly? Dr. Cross seems to do a very nice
>> job with his, and some of those are over 1,000 pages. Is a poorly scanned
>> textbook actually useful to a student? I don't know the answer to this
>> since I scanned my own textbooks for college back in the early 90s.
>>
>> Maybe I'm just in a clutter clearing mood this week. In the past, I was
>> more likely to take a scan rated good or fair if I could see the name of the
>> submitter and knew I could contact that person. Even now, I'd take on a
>> book with a warning that the book was a really tough scan, is a requested
>> textbook for someone, or that it's a person's first few scans. Seeing a
>> book uploaded by the infamous "a Bookshare volunteer" is sort of like poison
>> ivy to me. I don't touch it unless I have to. A book marked as fair and
>> that is anonymous as well is something I don't want to deal with unless I
>> have tons of free time and nothing else to scan or validate. I used to
>> spend weeks on such books, especially textbooks, and it made me feel
>> stressed and sort of crazy trying to fix it all because I knew students
>> would be using the books. I can't help but wonder if anyone even read those
>> books. By the time I was able to validate them into legible shape, the
>> person's class would have been over long ago.
>>
>> Monica Willyard
>>
>> Grandma Cindy wrote:
>>> Cindy Ray/Lou,
>>>
>>> You make some good points. Re number three, though--if
>>> the person who needs the text submitted it, he/she has
>>> it. If it's someone who asked for a scan, he/she can
>>> validate it and use it at the same time. smile
>>>
>>>
>
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