[bksvol-discuss] Re: A novel I am reading for my class that has some scannoes. Can they be fixed? I mean can the book be replaced?
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:44:52 -0700
I think your suggestion wonderful, Roger. It would put books on the
checkout list for people like me who leave excellent quality books for
members and would solve the problem Madeleine mentioned of there not
being enough books for proofers. (I'm not taking any books from that
list for a while, though, until I finish a two-volume biography I'm
working on., smile.
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Roger Loran Bailey
<rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> #
> I just used the advanced search to see how many fair quality books are in
> the bookshare catalog right now and there are 944. My experience with fair
> quality books, though, makes me think that most of them are so unreadable
> that they can't even be proofread. There are 4267 good quality books though.
> Those could probably benefit from proofreading. Something else occurs to me.
> Open Library has hundreds of thousands of Daisy books that have not been
> proofread at all. They are raw scans, but they are pretty good raw scans.
> That is, my experience with them is that most of them would be rated as good
> quality on Bookshare. Very many of those good quality Open Library books are
> not in the Bookshare collection. Bookshare and Open Library have some kind
> of relationship, but I don't know what it is. If there is a relationship at
> all, though, it might provide an opening for this suggestion. What if
> Bookshare should make this proposal? Open Library could supply books to be
> put on the Bookshare checkout list and volunteers could proofread them.
> Those books would then go into the Bookshare collection and also be returned
> to Open Library to replace the copies that they now have. That sounds like a
> win for both organizations to me.
>
> On 3/21/2013 6:22 PM, Cindy Rosenthal wrote:
>>
>> Actually, Nimit,you've probably done us all a favor; judging by a
>> recent note from Madeleine I think it was part of the phone
>> conference call) agenda) there need to be more books available for
>> proofing, so your book, and maybe staff (or members who can download
>> books) can find a lot of others in the collection that can be put on
>> the download list as BSOs forproofing and quality up-grading
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Nimit,
>>>
>>> Sent a book quality report. You're right that replacing C for O is not a
>>> problem. BARD may have a Braille copy. I'm sure they have an audio one.
>>>
>>> Ann P.
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