Hi Debra,
Sometimes the entire book is available to view in image form at
http:www.openlibrary.com, or sometimes the first pages like the table of
content can be viewed, again only in image form, on google books or
Amazon, in their "look inside feature." In this case, I checked and the
book isn't available on any of those three. If you need that help, it's
usually best to put in the subject of your email to this list "need
sighted help" so one of the sighted volunteers knows to read the email
to see if they can help.
However, I'm pretty sure the book didn't have a table of contents for a
different reason. I took a look at the book's page on the Bookshare
"Books in process" page. The person who scanned it is Marilyn. She's a
fantastic scanner. It's extremely unlikely that she would have missed a
page with the table of contents when scanning. However, you can double
check with her. The way to do that for any book you have checked out is
to get the scanner's email address from the book's history page on
Bookshare, and send them an email with the question you have.
To do that for any book you have checked out, log in to bookshare. Then
go to your "My checked out books" page at
https://catalog.bookshare.org/bookQueueMyCheckouts. Click on the title
of the book (in this case "The Wish in the Bottle.") That will bring up
the book's metatdata page. On that page you will find a link called
"View Book History". Click that link. On that page, the oldest entry in
the book history table will have the name of the volunteer who scanned
the book as a link. If you click on that link, it will bring up the
email address of the volunteer. Alternatively, the volunteer may have
left their email address in the comments they made when they submitted
the book. Marilyn always does that.
Marilyn is also on this list, so I'm changing the subject line of the
email so she'll know to look at it, too. smile.
I hope that helps!
Judy s.
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On 1/12/2016 11:56 AM, Debra Lessin wrote:
Thanks Judy, here is the info:
The Wish in the Bottle
by Morna MacLeod
An Apple Paperback
Scholastic Inc. 1997
ISBN 0-590-62970-0
The internet says it is available in paperback, ebook and in library. Is there a way to view it without buying it?
