I'm delighted you're going to do that. I assume the bok has Hold for Nimiit on it. smile On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Nimit Kaur <kaur.nimit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello! Roger, I like your idea. I think it would be cool!! I got a > response from Bookshare and I just wanted to tell you guys. I am > going to fix those scanoes and this book is in the check out list. I > am getting it in braille copy from somewhere and I will fix them for > the next student to read it. Thanks for all your help again. > > > On 3/21/13, 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. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Ann K. Parsons >>>> Portal Tutoring >>>> EMAIL: akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> web site: http://www.portaltutoring.info >>>> Skype: Putertutor >>>> >>>> "All that is gold does not glitter, >>>> Not all those who wander are lost." >>>> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >>>> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list >>>> of >>>> available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. >>>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >>> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list >>> of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. >>> >> >> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of >> available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. >> >> > > > -- > “JUST BECAUSE A MAN LACKS THE USE OF HIS EYES DOESN’T MEAN HE LACKS > VISION!!" By STEVIE WONDER > > "Just BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEE DOESN't MEAN YOU CAN'T HEAR AND THINK!!" > By STEVIE WONDER > > NIMIT KAUR > > kaur.nimit@xxxxxxxxx > kaur.nimit@xxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of > available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.