Especially when they are bilingual guys. -- "To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you forever. It's one thing to be melancholy and one thing to be sophisticated, but when you get the two of them together in a way people can relate to, then I think you're on to something. You want the sophistication to lie in the purity of the sound, the beauty of the arrangements, and the quality of the performances."-Trumpeter Chris Botti -- Chela Robles AIM and E-Mail: cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx Skype: jazzytrumpet WindowsLive Messenger: cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxxxx Facebook Profile: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=690550695 Cell: 1-925-250-5955 Please join this group I'm an officer of called Smooth Jazz Spot at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=497886055511 and please use this link to add your email address to our group email list: http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1103230119266&p=oi I Volunteer for a non-profit organization called Bookshare, to find out more go to: http://www.bookshare.org -- ----- Original Message ----- From: EVAN REESE To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 1:29 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion That may be true of many children's books, but as someone who has scanned a couple hundred of them, a great many kid's books can be bears to scan. It's easier to scan 300 pages of straight text than a fifty page children's book with illustrations on every page with text above and/or below them, or on the left and right sides. Those take quite a bit of work to get into decent shape, and many children's books are like that. So I'm not so sure that scanning and proofing kid's books should get less credit than fiction books for adults. They often take more work than books for adults several times their size; and I haven't even mentioned picture descriptions, if the submitter or proofreader takes the time to describe them. Many children's books aren't much good without them. Evan ----- Original Message ----- From: Denise Thompson To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 1:49 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion Well, when it comes down to it, there is also a big difference in scanning and proofing childrens books than doing fiction books. Most childrens' books are less than 50 pages. Some a lot less. That takes a whole lot less time than average novels of 200 plus pages. Personally I think there should be a different credit amount for kids books verses adult books also. It seems that once we start down that slope, though it starts getting very complicated and more difficult for book share to track. And the credits are a tocon anyway. It doesn't have any reference to actual hours spent, etc. Each of us can scan or proof the same book and it takes us different time amounts depending on equipment, software and skill- whether you have sight or not, etc. It's hard to know where the cut-offs should be if we start assigning differing amounts of credits for different categories of books. Denise At 02:51 AM 5/6/2010, you wrote: I was talking to another BookShare member and I was saying I think nonfiction books should be worth more credits to the validator/submitter. For one, they tend to be longer. For another, they often contain charts, diagrams, section headings, indices, etc. Many special features that need special handling. Thirdly, they are more difficult to obtain short of purchasing your own copy. I think people don't touch them immediately because of the time-consuming nature of validating them. Just a thought. Andromache To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.