[bksvol-discuss] Re: Complete Content
- From: "Linda Adams" <ladams@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:19:32 -0600
Hi, Evan. I have scanned books with difficult contents pages, and sometimes I
have had to read the rest of the book to know how the contents should be, take
notes on it, and just plain type it in when I am ready to submit the book, so I
understand what you mean. That is more work.
Linda Adams
----- Original Message -----
From: Evan Reese
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 2:57 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Complete Content
Carrie is right that absolutely the copyright info and title have to be
there. But as for the rest, preliminary and post-story material is not
considered core content and is not required for the book to be approved for the
collection.
I also enjoy reading such things, but since it is not required, some people
choose to exclude it. Especially some preliminary material such as the Table
of Contents doesn't scan very well and can take some work to get it into decent
shape. If a book has an index, this can also not come out very well, even with
good equipment and software, and the submitter and/or validator considers it
too much work to fix it up. I always put in all that stuff, and fix it up as
best I can, so I can tell you that it can indeed take a good deal of time to
make it good quality for some books.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Linda Adams
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 11:41 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Complete Content
I am curious as to why I have downloaded some Bookshare books that begin
immediately with the story without any preliminary or post-story information,
while others have had the contents, copyright information, other books by that
author and publisher, acknowledgements, and sections about the author. I
personally enjoy seeing all of the book's information, especially if I like the
author or have enjoyed the book's main content.
Linda Adams
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