You can find all the books that are currently listed as having been worked on by you by finding one. Near the end of the description of that book are the names of the scanner and submitter. Those names are links to all the books either scanned or proofed by that person. Then you have to go through that list and compare it to your list of books you have worked on to see which are missing from the bookshare list (what, you don't have a list of everything you worked on, neither do I, but I have the files which is more tedious to go through checking than a nice list *sigh*). That's as efficient as I can think of.
Misha On 7/30/2010 3:26 PM, Scott Rains wrote:
There is no more efficient way Scott Rains Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department ________________________________________ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Louise [bookscanner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 3:12 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Back on the List As far as I know, there is no way to determine which books have been replaced. I've kept a copy of all of the books I've submitted since 2008, but I'mmm not sure about the years 2002-07. However, I don't know how that would help me to determine which books have been replaced, short of going through my list of books and then searching for it on Bookshare to determine whether or not my name is still listed as the submitter. That would take forever to do! If there is a more efficient way to determinne this information, please let me and everyone else know who have or will be losing books. Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Rains"<scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To:<bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 4:46 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Back on the ListLouise, You can have plenty of "soap box" time with me off-list in exchange for giving me the titles of your replaced books. Early this week i mentioned that we have moved from needing qualitative to quantitative data on this issue. Thanks for any help you can give. Scott Rains Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department ________________________________________ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Louise [bookscanner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 2:41 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. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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