[bksvol-discuss] Re: Carrie Books (Re: Just Submitted)
- From: "Lora" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:57:04 -0600
I'd like to agree. I've seen two messages in the past month from you, Jake,
that made me want to cringe, and I wasn't even the one under the spotlight.
We all need to remember that we're all volunteers, and every one of us will
have a different approach to contributing to Bookshare, and a different
philosophy of what is most needed or desired in the collection. I believe
there is room for all of us.
Except the Fair rated books. OK, I have my biases, too. <Smile>
Seriously, though, we all need to remember to exercise a little kindness in
expressing our opinions, and if you really have a problem with someone,
perhaps raise it in private Email so that it feels a little less
threatening.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of siss52
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 4:23 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Carrie Books (Re: Just Submitted)
Hi Jake,
As one outspoken person to another, it does seem that when you are singling
out an individual, it would be best to write that person offlist. Your
messages, like mine, tend to be blunt. <smile>
Regards,
Sue S.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jake Brownell <mailto:jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 3:03 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Carrie Books (Re: Just Submitted)
Hi Carrie,
I never meant, intended, etc. anything of the sort that you don't volunteer
A LOT.
When I said "Thanks as always for all your volunteering Carrie!" it was in
ernest not in sarcasm or anything like that. Nor, was my intension to
complain. Nor to suggest you don't validate enough.
Like you said, how would we know that you
* Keep the hardest books to validate
* Keep track of your old books and self validate when necessary
* Do other validations (after all you said yourself that Gustavo is the only
other one who knows).
Until you wrote those three down, there's not really any way I could have
learned it, so I'm not sure how much more investigation I could have done.
I did investigate to the best of my ability, checking how many books you had
submitted on the download page, how many people seemed to be interested in,
and the general trend of whether or not your books get validated quickly. It
seemed that the list was just growing and growing. And, it seemed that lots
of the nonfiction books were not going anywhere fast, again, I did not know
that your intensions included processing them at a later time if they had
not been done.
I'm sorry if you thought my message was intended as an attack or complaint.
It was not. I guess I was attempting to point out that there were lots of
older books that could use some TLC ahead of newer ones. And it's usually
easier to edit with a print copy in hand.
I really just want to see Step 1 have the older books looked at and cleaned
out. Are you sure it was actually empty at one point?
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: Carrie Karnos <mailto:ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 2:33 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Carrie Books (Re: Just Submitted)
Hi Jake,
Whenever I submit a batch of books, I validate the hardest ones myself. For
example, in that last batch of 13 books, I kept 3 back. They were a guide
to the White House that had a picture or two on each page (I uploaded the
book to Gustavo this evening), a book on dog training that had pictures and
double columns, and a book on witchcraft with lots of symbols in it. I put
the easy books on the download list, really I do.
And I'm aware that some of my books linger on the download list. I keep
track of them, and when a book has lingered for several months, I validate
it myself. In the past week or two, I've validated Goliath by David Harris,
Flower Net by Lisa See and The Fifth Angel by David Wiltse. They all had
been on the download list for 4 months when I picked them up. I also
validated 5 x-rated books, since there are a lot of volunteers who have
delicate sensibilities.
In short, I do a lot of validating that no one knows about, other than
Gustavo. So I suggest you do more investigating before you accuse me of not
validating enough. And while we're at it, in the future, if you have any
other problems with my actions, please email me off-list. I don't
appreciate you complaining about me in public.
Carrie
Jake Brownell <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Carrie,
Great, but we could really use some help validating some of your submissions
that linger on the download list. Since you have the print books it might be
especially helpful if you could process some of the harder non fiction ones.
Unfortunately just running the book through the highspeed scanner doesn't
produce a book that is at the high end of excellent. While it's true that
your books don't have binding issues, it's still often times necessary to
read through the entire book if you really want a finished product that is
truly excellent quality.
It's also unfortunate that so many of your submissions lately people don't
seem to be interested in. I have noted that your submissions are usually
grabbed right away if people are interested in the books, but otherwise they
are grabbed, released quickly, let expire, or are never downloaded.
For instance currently there are 53 books submitted by you on the download
page, 46 of which have never been downloaded, that's about 87%, and 53/385
total books is about 14% of the download list. Me thinks we need to get some
of them processed before we make step 1 grow even more with bulk
submissions.
Below I've compiled a list of the books on step 1 done by Carrie so that you
can see if there are any that tickle your fancy.
Thanks as always for all your volunteering Carrie!
Jake
Title Author
Then Came Heaven LaVyrle Spencer
Royal Flash George Macdonald Fraser
Flashman in the Great Game George Macdonald Fraser
Flashman at the Charge George Macdonald Fraser
Black Sunday Thomas Harris
Desperate Games Pierre Boulle
Black William Robert Neill
Legs William Kennedy
The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology Erich Fromm
Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather
Ashes to Ashes Tami Hoag
Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes William Bridges
Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change William Bridges
Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
Richardo Semler
Post-Capitalist Society Peter F. Drucker
Future Scope: Success Strategies for the 1990s and Beyond Joe Cappo
Rejuvenating the Mature Business: The Competitive Challenge John M.
Stopford, Charles Baden-Fuller
Negotiating Rationally Margaret A. Neale, Max H. Bazerman
On Negotiating Mark H. McCormack
Delivering Quality Service: Balancing Customer Perceptions and Expectations
Leonard L. Berry, A. Parasuraman, Valarie A. Zeithaml
Mission Critical: The 7 Strategic Traps That Derail Even the Smartest
Companies Gregory G. Dess, Joseph C. Picken
World Class Manufacturing: The Lessons of Simplicity Applied Richard J.
Schonberger
Rethinking the Corporation: The Architecture of Change Robert M. Tomasko
The Lean Enterprise: Designing and Managing Strategic Processes for
Customer-Winning Performance Nick Rich, Peter Hines, Dan Dimancescu
Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation
Daniel T. Jones, James P. Womack
It's Not Luck Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Competing for the Future C. K. Prahalad, Gary Hamel
Co-opetition Barry J. Nalebuff, Adam M. Brandenburger
Aiming Higher: 25 Stories of How Companies Prosper by Combining Sound
Management and Social Vision David Bollier
Managing by Values Michael O'Connor, Ken Blanchard
Parting with Illusions Vladimir Pozner
Spring Moon Bette Bao Lord
Steppenwolf & Siddhartha (Cliffs Notes) Carolyn Roberts Welch
The Dead Sea Cipher Elizabeth Peters
The Curse of the Pharaohs Elizabeth Peters
The Copenhagen Connection Elizabeth Peters
Silhouette in Scarlet Elizabeth Peters
Naked Once More Elizabeth Peters
Legend in Green Velvet Elizabeth Peters
Die for Love Elizabeth Peters
Nunquam Lawrence Durrell
Prophecy David Seltzer
Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 3 1995 The Editors Of The Reader's
Digest
Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 5 1995 The Editors Of The Reader's
Digest
The Watchmen Ben Bova
Time to Come August Derleth (editor)
Azazel Isaac Asimov
A Kiss Before Dying Ira Levin
The Complete Father Brown G. K. Chesterton
The Titan Game Niven Busch
A Study of History D. C. Somervell (abridger), Arnold J. Toynbee
Dreams: Your Magic Mirror with Interpretations by Edgar Cayce Elsie
Sechrist
Answer to History Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
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