[bksvol-discuss] British vs American English designation Re:was Need Help Solving a Mystery
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 23:08:45 -0700 (PDT)
Good idea. Then we wouldn't have to indicate whether it's U.K. or not when we
upload. I don't think it matters to the member reader, though I do put in the
comments that spelling and punctuation are British. I dn't know if a braille
reader or a Daisy reader would be confused by the British use of a single mark
' instead of our quotation marks which are, " and the reverse for quotes
within quotes.
Cindy
--- On Tue, 8/21/12, Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Need Help Solving a Mystery
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 8:03 PM
Well I agree with Roger. The search should default to English,
period.
Evan
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From:
Cindy
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 10:59
PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Need Help
Solving a Mystery
I believes the proofer checks the language when checking
in the book. Also, I've seen series in which some books are U.S.
English
and others are British. In fact, Choices, which I just uploaded is
British spelling and punctuation but Shaman, book 2 in the series wass
American.My guess is that it depends on the publisher
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On Tue, 8/21/12, Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
From:
Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss]
Re: Need Help Solving a Mystery
To:
bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 5:39
PM
Thanks Em, if I knew that about the
Advanced search default, I forgot about it. I never use Basic search
anymore because it gives too many results. How that one book got set
to English UK when the other eight did not is another
mystery.
Hmmm, I wonder if it could be reset to US
English so it comes up along with the rest of the series. Madeleine,
Would you be able to do that?
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Em Rose
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
8:30 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re:
Need Help Solving a Mystery
Hi Evan,
It seems the problem is the language setting. That
particular book is listed as English UK whereas the others in the
series are listed as English US. The advanced search defaults
to English US. I believe the basic search looks at all
languages so you should be able to find it using that.
Em
Sent from my iPad
On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:37 PM, "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Guys, I have a little mystery I'd
like your help with. In checking on a series Lissi and I are
working on, something strange is happening with one of the books.
The most recent book we did in this series, The Going Rate, by
John Brady, only shows up in the list of his books when I click
on
the link to the author's name. If I type in the title, or the
author's name, or both, into the Advanced search field, the book
does not show up. If I enter John Brady into the
Advanced
search field and go to the relevant author, all eight of the
other
books we did come up, (and a ninth book about interviewing which
I
think is by a different John Brady), but not The Going Rate,
which
is the most recent one we did. I'm wondering if anyone else here
would care to try entering the title or author into the Advanced
search field and see what happens. Also, if anyone has any idea
why the book doesn't show up for me under normal searching, I'd
appreciate hearing about it. I do frequent searches for myself
and
Lissi to determine whether something is in the collection in
order
to figure out what books to try to get to scan, and it disturbs
me
a bit to find out that just typing in a title does not
necessarily
bring up the book even if it is in the collection, or entering an
author does not necessarily bring up all of their books that are
in the collection. I've made sure my settings bring up books of
all qualities, and besides, this book was just recently approved
and is in excellent condition, having been proofread by the very
best proofreader around. I'm biased, I admit.
<smile>
Anyway, I'd be interested in hearing what
other people find. If others of you get the same results, then I
think someone at Bookshare needs to look into the matter. Thanks
much.
Evan
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