Hi Tracy and Jamie,I think this issue is very important to the accessibility of PQ books in general. If a book is provided to Bookshare by the author or publisher, and we are not allowed to touch it, but it does not contain the very information that would make the book accessible to Bookshare members, who do pay for the privilege of reading the book (though not a lot), is that book truly accessible? Can Bookshare sign contracts for accessible books and consider those contracts met if the books provided do not contain accessible information, including graphs, tables, charts, and images crucial to understanding the book?
My thought about such knitting books is "Why bother? I can get that much of the book anywhere!"
This also applies to Sue's family tree, and to PQ textbooks with crucial missing pieces. And we have been asked by Bookshare to create quality reports--but how does one go about sending a quality report for each of these books? They are many! We may need another volunteer segment to complete this task. And, having found them, what can be done?
Sandi----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 7:36 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Knitting books
Hi Jamie. Many blessings on your head for taking all that trouble! I know how hard it is to translate those charts; I've occasionally tortured my sister with it. Guess I'll have to look for knitting books submitted by you. The PQ knitting books are full of charts. Or should I say lacking, since the charts aren't actually there at all. TracyTracy, the books I have done with knitting charts, I have painstakingly typed in the graphs with whatever symbol is in the book (x, o, / whatever). They are extremely difficult books to do even when there are only a few graphs. -- Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading: Heads You Lose by Lisa Lutz See everything I've read this year at: www.michiganrxtech.com/books.htmlTo 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 of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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