[bksvol-discuss] A perhaps inappropriate request
- From: Cindy R <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 18:02:02 -0700 (PDT)
It is perhaps inappropriate for me to request books
since I am only a volunteer and not a member, but
here's the situation (and my request).
Recently, in response to a request, I scanned and, as
I always do, validated the book before sumitting it.
As a result, I have become a fan of Bertrice Small.
Her historical romance novels are wonderfully textured
-- full of details that not only make the historical
personages, as well as the ficitonal characters in the
books, wonderfully real but also have woven into them
the social customs, clothing, food, politics, etc.,
etc.that educates as well as entertains.
My problem is that since volunteering for bookshare I
don't feel that I should read and enjoy a book without
making it also available to bookshare readers. Thus
books I choose to read on my own time are books that
are already on bookshare or older classics that I
suspect members can get elsewhere.
I know this is totally irrational, but it's the way I
feel. When I read a book, as I am now, for my pleasure
that isn't on bookshare I feel a bit guilty.
Back to Bertrice Small's books. When I finished Love
Slave for bookshare, I noticed that Rosamund was
already in the collection, so I read that and
thoroughly enjoyed it (set in turn-of-16th century
England). I just received from the library its sequel,
Until You, which I shall scan and submit -- and, being
unable to wait for it, I'm now reading Beloved, set in
3d century Palmyra (a city-state in the Roman Empire
in the 3d century). But I seem able only to obtain
these books from the library in paperback editions
with small print. It takes a long time and is somewhat
difficult for me to scan them with the kind of
unsopisticated scanner I have (page by page, pressing
down so the pages near the binding will scan). I know
there are quite a few of you who like to scan and who
can do it very quickly. I'm hoping maybe some of you
would be willing to scan some of her books -- there
are many -- maybe starting with Skye O'Malley and the
ones that follow in the Skye O'Malley Saga. It doesn't
matter to me how bad the scan is -- I'll be happy to
validate the book -- but if someone else wants to,
that's o.k., too. Then I'll feel free to read it.
I hope this request isn't out of line.
Cindy
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