A lengthy discussion occurred aroundsix months ago about the abolition of books in the collection when publisher quality books come along. I think the most harmful loss when a book is replaced by a PQ book is the loss of picture descriptions. But an almost equal loss is the loss of hours of effort on a volunteer's part. I just completed proofing a poetry book and verified that all line endings of the poems were in fact correct by comparing the poems in the book with versions of the poems from the internet. It took more hours than any other book I have proofed for bookshare, but in fact was a "labor of love". And I would mind if that book were replaced by a PQ book. But the bottom line is that it doesn't matter if I would mind because that is the agreement made with publishers, so what is is! And, Bob, I love that umbrella quote. It gave me my first chuckle of the day and normally I don't chuckle before noon and it's only 7:00 a.m here. Lori C. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:42 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: If You See Duplicates Jamie brings up a good point. However, I think this brings up another question, how literal should we take this? One thing I do when I proof a book is to change the font size for chapter headings so that they are navigable in a daisy format, which, in my opinion, improves the book for bookshare users. Also, what about all those books for pre-school kids with wonderful picture descriptions. In my opinion, again, these are improvements to the bookshare collection rather than changes to the publisher's intent. All these changes would be abolished if a book of publisher quality came along to replace them. Bob "A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain." ----- Original Message ----- From: Jamie Yates, CPhT To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:05 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: If You See Duplicates Kim, we are not allowed to clean up typographical errors in books either. If it is in the print book wrong, it has to be in the Bookshare file wrong, too. -- Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading: Miss Julia Hits the Road by Ann B. Ross See everything I've read this year at: www.michrxtech.com/books.html