[bksvol-discuss] Re: Back on the List
- From: "John Diakogeorgiou" <jdiakogeorgiou@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:47:30 -0400
Consider all the people that had the opportunity to read the books you
helped with over the decade. If you hadn't done this they would have needed
to wait till now.
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Louise
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 5:42 PM
To: Bookshare Volunteers
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Back on the List
I got back on the list yesterday after being gone from it for a long time.
Although I knew it was inevitable, I am still very unhappy about the number
of books that are being replaced. In my particular case, I've lost about 40
books in the last month! At this rate, in a year or two, I will be down to
zero or close to it and then I can hang it up and chalk it up to a decade of
wasted time and effort. Like so many tasks that are undertaken in life,,
even good ones never last. I guess It was a pipe dream to think that
volunteers would be scanning books that would stay on Bookshare for many
years to come and now reality has to be faced.
I guess we should be grateful that Bookshare is increasing their quantity
(and quality?) of books so dramatically. Numbers have always been
everything when it comes to the big picture.
I joined Bookshare a month or so after they went live in February of 2002,
but at this point I don't know whether or not I'll be around by the time
they reach their next anniversary in February of 2011.
Perhaps Bookshare should change their name to something like Digital Books
for the Blind, Dyslexic, Learning Disabled, etc.
I will continue scanning books since I still enjoy doing that. As to
whether or not they will ever reside on any other computers besides mine is
another matter entirely.
Now that I've had my say, I'll get off my soapbox and go back to my scanner.
What will happen will happen and we'll just have to accept the inevitable
whether we like it or not.
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