[bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download Updates
- From: "Lisa Friendly" <LisaF@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 14:32:13 -0700
It's on its way. I will post mail shortly. For now, we're going to start with
downloadable html. Then everyone on the list can convert it as they wish for
their players, their preferences, etc.
Lisa
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Evan Reese
Sent: Sun 8/5/2007 2:12 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download Updates
True enough. This is easily done. Still, there's no reason why we couldn't
have both a complete downloadable manual which could be placed in the new
books list whenever changes are made, and that can be accessed the way it is
now. If it is as easy to concatenate the files under the separate links as
it is, then it would be easy to make the manual into a complete book for
those to download who wish.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Jamie Pauls
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 12:40 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download Updates
It took me less than five minutes to click on each main topic of the
manual, save the pages to my hard drive as a text file, and send them to my
Book Port. Anyone who is computer savvy enough to be a Book Share volunteer
surely has the technical know-how to save the manual for future reading if
they wish. The staff has stated why they wish to leave the manual on the web
for the present. Many software manufacturers follow the same practice with
their help files and manuals. I plan to go sit in my comfy recliner, hold a
cat on my lap if I can talk her in to it and read the manual on my Book
Port.
----- Original Message -----
From: Linda Adams
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 2:27 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download
Updates
Hi, Evan. That idea may not even work technically, but we have already
alienated one person, who said that she wouldn't be reading the manual if
she didn't have it on the go, and there may be others like that person. I
hope we can come up with something to give people free access to the manual
on the go, in their note takers, or whatever, that will satisfy Bookshare's
concerns about updates because otherwise, Bookshare, if it does nothing, may
alienate several of its volunteers. After all, how can we call ourselves
Bookshare if we're not willing to share our main book?
Linda Adams
----- Original Message -----
From: Evan Reese
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 12:56 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download
Updates
Sorry, Linda, but I don't have a good feeling about this idea.
Certainly, we want to encourage people to have the latest information, and
some problems may arise if they don't get it. But forcing them to download
it by not allowing them to volunteer if they don't sounds to me like a
really good way of alienating people.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Linda Adams
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 2:53 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Foolproof Method for Manual Download
Updates
If Bookshare staff puts a Bookshare manual book in the collection
for us to download, a code could be placed in the downloading of that book
since Bookshare knows anyway when we download books. This code could be
necessary to show up in our account or profile before we would be allowed to
submit or validate books. That way, no further volunteering could be done
unless the volunteer had downloaded the latest version of the manual. That
code could be an automatic password attached to the download of the manual
that would be our key to continue volunteering. The system would see that
manual download code and permit us to continue volunteering.
Linda Adams
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