[bksvol-discuss] Re: Are volunteers really that important anymore?

  • From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:31:16 -0500

Hey, I like the way you think Evan.

Bob
"We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make,"
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
----- Original Message ----- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 11:15 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Are volunteers really that important anymore?


If we could just get a thousand volunteers to do one book a week--a good average, since many children's books can be done far more quickly, and some adult books may take quite a bit longer--then volunteers alone could add fifty thousand books a year. A thousand volunteers sounds like alot, but I heard many years ago that RFB&D had over four thousand volunteers. I would imagine that that number is higher now. If a book every two weeks is more realistic, then that still adds up to twenty-five thousand books a year produced by volunteers. That is five hundred books a week--still more than the outsourcers are doing.

Evan

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 12:49 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Are volunteers really that important anymore?


Another response would be, we need more volunteers. I suspect that if everyone in the U.S. with a computer and scanner donated work on just two books a year, we would overwhelm the numbers the outsourcers are doing. Now, getting all those people to volunteer for bookshare would be a big task in itself, but then, I have been called an optimist before.

Misha


My Nickels Worth wrote:
I'm sorry, but reading all this is sort of depressing!
I enjoy my time volunteering for book share, and I don't like the idea of being replaced! I also can't say that the quality of the books done by machines, etc, is better then the ones done by the folks on this list or the ones who don't happen to be on it! that leads me to ask the question of what can those of us who volunteer still do, with all the things that are being done now, what with publisher quality books being submitted, books being bought and scanned in house, and all the other things cited in the below posts? I proof read when I have the time now, and really don't scan that many books, unless I am already having to scan one for school.
 Caitlyn


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