Hi Gary and all, I predict there will never be a day when all books are publisher quality. Our volunteer efforts will always represent a critical part of the Bookshare project. ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary Petraccaro To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 6:49 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: HarperCollins donations I would find that just wonderful. We're hoping we will be obsoleted, because without that, we will never be able to scan much of what's already out there. ----- Original Message ----- From: siss52 To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 9:21 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: HarperCollins donations These publisher quality books concern me. John Glass said something to the effect that someday they hope to have all publisher quality in the collection. We have some topnotch submitters and validators, and a lot of the books in the collection reflect this. I would hate to see books that deserve their excellent rating replaced. Sue S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 2:17 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] HarperCollins donations Allison H was kind enough to send me the list of books that HarperCollins has donated to bookshare. I gather that bookshare is working on making them available for download in BRF, and Allison and some of you kind people are working to affix short synopses. Then they'll be added to the collection. Some already have been added, replacing one book that I spent time validating, though my synopsis was left intact. Whether others will replace books already in the collection, even if they're Excellent, or will be added along with them so members have a choice as to what to download, I don't know. I certainly hope not the former. Anyway, I plan not to validate any books on the list. If any of you are thinking of scanning or validating books published by HarperCollins, you're welcome to check with me if you don't want to do one of the books that will be added by the publisher. Unfortunately, we couldn't wait for the Princess Diary books to get into the collection from the publisher. Only Princess in Training remains, and Judy is validating that. Yay!! G.Cindy ***WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS AVAILABLE AT http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/Book_Requests.htm http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/ http://studentpages.alma.edu/~07jmyate/book_requests.htm A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/scanning.html Jake's site for useful links: http://www.jbrownell.com/bkslinks.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ 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. 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. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.2/1387 - Release Date: 4/19/2008 11:31 AM