[bksvol-discuss] Re: Are volunteers really that important anymore?
- From: Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:54:39 -0700
Cindy, it's pretty easy, allbeit extremely tedious, actually. They
follow word by word in the book. Obviously they'd have to have it in
hand to do that, or at least an image thereof, & OCR programs can save
images, so that's not a problem.
On 8/28/09, Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm not exactly what is meant by outsourcers I know there are some
> individuals who are paid, former volunteers, or members, who are part-time
> employees. They do, I'm sure, an excellent job of scanning and proofing,
> which is why they were hired. I think the Outrsourcers are groups of people,
> perhaps in different countries. When I was doing the list of books added it
> was clear from the synopses that I was reading that English was not their
> first language. I don't see, then, how they could proofread (whether right
> after scanning and before submission)or later and have submissions that are
> Excellent. T
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> Cindy
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> Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and
> books-being-scanned list available at sites below
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> Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
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> Books Being Scanned List:
> https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
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> --- On Fri, 8/28/09, EVAN REESE <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: EVAN REESE <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Are volunteers really that important anymore?
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, August 28, 2009, 9:15 AM
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> 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.
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> Evan
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 12:49 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Are volunteers really that important anymore?
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>> 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
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>> 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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