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

  • From: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:41:21 -0400

There is certainly room for laughs. I once heard a man telling about how he took a trip to England and absolutely shocked them there when he called his children the little buggers. The problem seems to be that Americans have virtually lost the word buggery that describes what buggers do. Americans use other words to describe the activity. 

On 6/22/2012 11:30 PM, Cindy wrote:

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
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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
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  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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