[bksvol-discuss] Re: Download Stats
- From: "Gisela Vazquez" <giselavazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 20:10:57 -0400
I so agree with this. The only problem I see is that it could be thrown off by
book quality. A perfect example is the Honor Harington series by David Weber. I
love that series but some of the books on bookshare that belong to that series
are fair and I won't download them. It would be interesting to add to the pile
of stats and everything else how much scan quality effects if someone will
download a book or not.
gisela
Gisela Vazquez, MSW
Pediatric Social Worker
A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper. - Chinese proverb
Yes, knowing how many times a book has been downloaded would be helpful.
Besides being able to determine a book's or series's popularity in order to
determine
what needed to be scanned, it could help give you an idea as to whether or not
you might want to read a book.
If the statistics are availabel, they could also be used to generate a Top 100
Books Downloaded List and a current Best-Downloaders List. I don't know
if I'd give the creation of the lists a high priority, but they would be nice
to have.
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Carrie Karnos
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 8:54 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: bibliographies
Yes, I'd like to see how many times a book has been downloaded. It would help
me determine what books to look for at used book sales.
The other thing I'd like is to see a list of all the books that are not
copyrighted, those books that are available to sighted people.
Carrie
vining@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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I'd like to see that too. And I wish there was some way of seeing how many
times particular books are downloaded.
Joanie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marissa Mika"
To:
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 4:09 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: bibliographies
Hi E.,
I think your idea for the bibliographies is a wonderful one. Do people
have similar theme lists they're working with that they'd like to
contribute? Definitely something we should consider formalizing and
putting on the website. I'll be sure to copy this email out and put a
star on it that says "hey, new person, follow up on this, because it's
cool!"
Sarah, I can give you a category count but I can't give you a more
specific topic count. Would you find it interesting if I showed you some
nu mbers about how the category counts have changed since we first
launched?
Best,
Marissa
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sarah Van
Oosterwijck
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 3:49 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 43 books today
I love your idea!
Just yesterday or the day before I was talking about how interesting it
would be if someone did some work to find out what topics bookshare has
a lot of books about, and then check to see how well a person could do
using bookshare to do some hypothetical research assignments. For some
reason the word "bibliographies" didn't pop in to my mind, but that is
exactly what would be useful.
Not that I would wish to do anything but a strictly hypothetical
research project. :-) Well, maybe the research itself could be real,
but the paper th at is supposed to result would never be produced. LOL
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
----- Original Message -----
From: "E."
To:
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 2:05 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 43 books today
> Here is an idea for bookshare. We can have a place where a list of
> bibliographies are stored. For instance, there can be a list of books
on
> the holocust, and lists for other topics or themes. I have begun to
put
> together a few tentative lists, one on non-western religion, for
instance,
> and another on history themes. Ones which immediately spring to mind
are
> books about the Civil War, the American Revolution and such. These
lists
> might be valuable to students. The one about the Civil War could
include
> histories, plus fiction about the war.
>
> The lists of nom inees and winners of various prizes could also be kept
in
> the bibliography section of bookshare. We might be able to get grants
to
> create books about particular subjects. By the way, what about the
idea of
> scanning a few books on grant writing for those of us inclined to
learn the
> art.
>
> E.
>
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