Like we have been saying, concentrate on long out of print books and small and obscure publishers.
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The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Lumpkin" <llumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:46 PMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Have your scanning and proofing choices changed, with the influx of publisher quality books?
Scott, that is great but my problem remains. I don't want my book scanningto end up a waste of time. What can be done to avoid this? -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Rains Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 7:46 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Have your scanning and proofing choices changed, with the influx of publisher quality books? Volunteers, In response to both Judy's note on her trip to the candy shop below andLarry's dilemma posted to the list today on how to select books to scan letme close my work day by sharing with you this note. Arriving in my Inbox first thing this morning it was titled 'Complaint" from our CEO Jim Fruchterman: Jim, I would like to register a complaint! Bookshare is piling on books fasterthan I can read the titles. Ever since I was a kid, I was a title glutton.I went through every catalog the NLS had and every Braille Book Review. I did the same later with Web Braille, and whole months have gone by during which I knew every book that hit the collection.This was viable, maybe even adaptive behaviour in a climate of scarcity. Icould pluck out a handful of the finite number of books on offer and leavethe rest, and if I didn't have absolute choice, I at least got to be sure Iwasn't missing anything.Not. Anymore. Bookshare is adding so much content that favourite authors ofmine are creeping into the collection without my noticing. I'm findingwhole herds of books I thought would be too frivolous ever to scan but that I secretly wanted to read but that that *I* would never scan because I would look silly. (E.G. a compendium of fashion mistakes spotted in Brooklyn. Ananthology of rejection letters. Something called Zen Computer that gives you a meditation for every function key on the keyboard (the @ reminds you to consider your position in the universe!))..) Seriously, you guys rock. I love this new pace and all the variety. Feel free to share this with whoever's responsible for the awesomeness. Best, Chancey So volunteers, although our contribution into the collection stands at 142 for July as of midday today, you still share in the blame for this embarrassment of riches! Thanks for all your work. Other responsibilities today have kept me fromproviding you with the volunteer manual feedback summary that I promised butyou will be pleased to learn that one of those responsibilities included detailing the changes to be made as a result of your input. Scott Rains Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department ________________________________________ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judy s. [cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 5:08 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Have your scanning and proofing choices changed, with the influx of publisher quality books? Wow. I just checked the list of new books that have been added to the collection in the last 4 weeks, and it includes over 9,500 titles. Congratulations, Bookshare! That is absolutely amazing. In the last year I've changed my own personal strategy in terms of what books I work on, migrating to getting into the collection treasured bookslong out of print or from presses that aren't signing on to Bookshare. Thatway I feel I can continue to contribute, but in areas that aren't going to overlap with publishers' contributions. I'm definitely curious if other volunteers are doing the same! So--what are you concentrating on scanning or proofreading, and has whatyou're working on changed with the influx of new publishers coming on board? Are there hints you can share with how you're making your choices, that the rest of us volunteers can use so we don't end up duplicating effort with thePQ books that are coming into the collection? I've already had several books that I worked on replaced by "publisherquality" books. I thought I would mind, but then realized that I'm feeling pretty philosophical about it. I do regret that (in my opinion) some of thepublishers quality books aren't as good as the ones they're replacing thatwere done by volunteers, mainly because of the missing image descriptions in the PQ books that volunteers worked so hard to get into their contributionsof those titles. So I hope Bookshare finds some sort of way to have this addressed in the future. I know that the staff are aware of this issue, from what's been said here. Overall, though, as a Bookshare member, I'm actually just feeling like a little kid in a really big candy shop. smile. Judy s. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list ofavailable commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. 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