[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare demographics
- From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:58:29 -0800
Jake,
Believe me, I salute your energy and your love of books. This is wonderful,
and I encourage you to stay with it.
Perhaps the solution is to have a volunteer or two who dedicate themselves
to this genre of books.
I certainly would never want to deprive that young person the opportunity to
read the latest and greatest title that all her peers are reading, I just
want to be sure that we do not become too balkanized.
Happy reading, and good luck with your studies.
Brian M.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jake" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 12:33 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare demographics
> Brian,
> As a prolific submitter of kids material I'll take a minute to explain
> why.
>
> I'm a person of many hobbies each of which I will focus on from time to
> time. For instance I also enjoy old time radio programs greatly and have
an
> extensive collection of public domain material.
>
> Books came before old time radio and other hobbies like web design and
> program design. I used to collect Hardy Boys books as well as other
titles,
> but primarily Hardy Boys. I remember reading some on my CCTV when my
vision
> was better. I also remember the numerous NLS tapes and how annoyed I'd get
> because they wouldn't have anymore when there were two or three times the
> number of titles available that they had available. I also believe it or
not
> in 1999 was scanning books every now and then at the age of 13 using OCR
> software offered by my scanner package. Was it error free? Definately not
> but you could follow what was going on.
> So I've got well over 100 if not close to 200 kids titles. I'm a freshman
in
> college now and when I began scanning books again this summer naturally I
> turned to my piles of books to read. Some I'd read through scanning and
some
> were read to me and others I had yet to read. Also this summer I saw an
> excellent deal on a huge lot of Boxcar Children books that weren't on
> BookShare yet, so naturally I picked them up.
>
> It is also important to note that children books are faster and easier to
> do. The recent postings you might have seen from me might have something
to
> do with the fact I'm on winter vacation and have scanned and submitted
over
> 20 books during this time.
> I feel that I will for some time be a submitter of kids books because I
just
> remember that I wanted more from series. And if at the age of 13 I'm
> operating a computer and scanner then I could potentially at a younger age
> be using a BookShare account to access my favorite books.
>
> Of course I do enjoy older titles. I love John Grisham and have recently
> read State of Fear by Michael Crichton and am currently listening to Fire
> Ice by Clive Custler on audiobook. The text of Fire Ice isn't on BookShare
> but I think my step mom has a copy I might be able to scan...it is proving
> an interesting read...
>
> Well I've definately strayed off topic a bit. I guess my point is that yes
> there might be quite a bit, but looking at the new books list I definately
> see a lot of nonkids related material. Hang in there with this semester
I've
> got going for me, 18 hours, I doubt you'll hear a lot from me <frown> but
ah
> well then they'll be summer....
>
>
> Happy reading!
> Jake
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 11:30 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Bookshare demographics
>
>
> > Listers,
> > I wonder if there is any demographic information about the universe of
> > bookshare users.
> > I ask, because I am thinking that perhaps to some degree the books that
> are
> > submitted and validated might be prioritized according to the user base.
> > It seems to me, for example, that we are submitting and validating an
> aweful
> > lot of childrens books, and I can't think that there are that many kids
> > using bookshare.
> > Yes, I know that sometimes it is fun for us adults to read good
childrens
> > lit, and that some kids books are among the best titles in literature,
but
> > it seems as though we have two or three kids books for every other
title.
> > I for one am beginning to feel that all these kids books are crowding
out
> > other adult titles that are languishing waiting for validation.
> > Brian Miller
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Paula and James Muysenberg" <outofsightlife@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "Bksvol" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 4:50 PM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Submitted
> >
> >
> > > The God You've Been Searching For, by Mac Brunson, with foreword by
> David
> > > Jeremiah
> > > RTF
> > > 8 chapters, about 157 pages
> > > Already thoroughly edited, and all pages accounted for.
> > >
> > > Paula
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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