[bksvol-discuss] Re: Awesome - 151,663 Titles on Bookshare

  • From: Dasha Radford <dasha95@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:08:01 -0400


Cindy,
Braille looks strange in British English. I remember trying to read a British 
publication in braille and at least to start with having almost no idea what I 
was reading. No Capital letter marks on I some punctuations that we would 
expect not there and some other spacing things that quite frankly look sort of 
odd if you used to reading regular American English braille. The code is very 
very different very very much the same two. Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 22, 2012, at 4:44 PM, Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You bring up a good point, Roger, one that I, and I think you and some 
> others, have   complained about before; when the default language is U.S. 
> English, one cannot find books that have been designated British English; can 
> one if one changes the language choice to Any? I can't remember, and I 
> haven't tried. recently.  Maybe we shouldn't designate British English, as 
> we've been directed, when we upload books we';ve proofed; I don't supposed 
> members will be concerned with difference in spelling and punctuation. The 
> words sound alike if a member is listening to a book; I don't know what 
> Braille would do. And sighted members would figure out soon enough that the 
> spelling is British and not U.S. , and not  spelling mistakes.
> Cindy
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: 
>> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 1:15 PM
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Awesome - 151,663 Titles on Bookshare
>> 
>> It is interesting that when I click the search button without filling 
>> anything 
>> in the search field I thought I was getting a list of every book Bookshare 
>> has, 
>> but I only get 145,688 titles returned. I don't really have a lot of reason 
>> to have a list of every single book in the collection sitting right in front 
>> of 
>> me, but I thought that was a way to find out how many books were in the 
>> collection. It is apparently not. I think I see the reason for the 
>> discrepancy. 
>> I have my advanced search settings set for as broad a search of the 
>> collection 
>> as possible and assume that if I want it to be narrower I can narrow it for 
>> a 
>> specific search when I do that specific search. The problem seems to be the 
>> language. I have it set to search American English and I see no way to 
>> search 
>> for more than one language at a time. The only reason I would have to search 
>> for 
>> all languages at once is to see how many books are in the collection, but 
>> that 
>> is now taken care of by this new counter feature. However, it would really 
>> be 
>> nice if I could search for American English and British English at the same 
>> time. They are treated as separate languages though. I can see why the 
>> choice of 
>> specifying a language is there. There is no point in searching for books in 
>> a 
>> language that one cannot read. However, when it comes to British English and 
>> American English there really should not be anyone who can read one and not 
>> the 
>> other. I don't see why they are treated as different languages in the search 
>> feature. As long as they are, though, does anyone know how to search both at 
>> one 
>> time without having to do a different search for each language?
>> On 6/22/2012 3:40 PM, Judy s. wrote:
>>> I just looked at the new version of Bookshare's entry page on the 
>> website (http://www.bookshare.org). I love the new feature on the right hand 
>> side of the page that's a counter of how many books are in the collection.  
>> As of today, there are 151,663 titles.  That is totally awesome.
>>> 
>>> As a sighted but disabled member, I'm also grateful for and thrilled by 
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