[bksvol-discuss] Re: Concerns About A Book On Step 1
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:13:14 -0700 (PDT)
I agree, Monica. It's frustrating to see a book on the download list,
especially one that has been there for a long time, and not be able to validate
it because it's in KES or Ark or Wynn, when I know other people who perhaps can
won't take it for a number of valid reasons but I am willing. I try to take
books that other won't or can't, either because it needs sight or the content
is objectionable for one of several reasons--I have a wide tolerance level,
smile.
Cindy
--- On Wed, 9/17/08, Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Concerns About A Book On Step 1
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 3:36 AM
> Hi, everyone. Yesterday Elizabeth let us know that the book
> Chef
> M.D.'s Big Book of Culinary Medicine, by JOHN LA PUMA
> and Rebecca
> Powell needs a sighted validater. Guess what! The book is
> in kes
> format. None of our sighted validaters can open it. This
> situation
> frustrates me because this is the kind of book that will be
> passed
> from blind volunteer to blind volunteer with no resolution.
> Why?
> Because only blind people can open it! I'm especially
> frustrated
> because Bookshare could resolve this easily with a policy
> change on
> file formats or by providing a converter at the time of
> upload. There
> are 11 more cookbooks like this, all in kes format. If
> sighted help is
> needed, it won't happen with these books since they
> aren't rtf files.
> Cookbooks are tough to scan and validate, and sighted help
> is usually
> needed somewhere along the way. Sighted people *don't*
> have Kurzweil
> because they don't need it, and it costs a thousand
> dollars. I'm not
> trying to bash the submitter here. I'm saying that this
> situation
> seems wasteful and silly to me. I know I can't change
> it, but it sure
> would be nice if everyone were required to submit in rtf
> since that's
> what all validaters can open and have to upload to
> Bookshare anyway.
> (sigh) Ok, I'm going to go and get some coffee. Maybe
> I won't feel so
> grumpy then.
>
>
> --
> Monica Willyard
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