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

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:30:18 -0700 (PDT)

Good point, although if both forms of English were designated just as  English, 
I suppose that just as U.S. readers could read and understand British English,  
readers  in countries that use British language can read and understand (and no 
doubt laugh at and rasie eyebrows at) U.S. English
Ciindy



----- Original Message -----
> From: Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: 
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 1:53 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Awesome - 151,663 Titles on Bookshare
> 
> Cindy, I don't think it's a good idea to change the designations of 
> books for this reason.  It's another one of those things that yes, 
> doesn't totally make sense to me, but it might be something that, for 
> example, allows non-USA members to easily use to search for books that are 
> available to them in their countries because of the copyright laws governing 
> who 
> gets to access what.  Just speculating, but I don't think this is one of 
> those things that is up to us volunteers to change on our own.  If that makes 
> sense?  smile.
> 
> Judy s.
> On 6/22/2012 3:44 PM, Cindy 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
>>>  the number of publisher quality books that have entered the collection 
> in the
>>>  last 18 months with the original illustrations intact.  I haven't 
> read a
>>>  book where I can look at the illustrations for over 20 years.  Way to 
> go,
>>>  Bookshare!  I'm psyched about the POET project to get illustrations
>>>  described. It gives me hope that eventually everyone can have access to 
> both
>>>  illustrations and good descriptions of the illustrations in the future.
>>>>    Judy s.
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