That is nice of you, Bob. But the outsourcers get paid for their work, in money! So maybe I have the wrong attitude, but it seems THEY should fix them. I ran into one, The Kennedy Women, An American Dynasty, that was in awful shape. It was submitted and proofread by Trans Access. I filed a quality report, and also notified Carrie. She sent it back to them to redo, and now it is in good shape. So they CAN do good work. (smile) Sue S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 6:49 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles As far as I know, none of these contractors are on this list, or at least they don't contribute under the name of their business. Maybe we can't offer them any advice. If Carrey will put the original .rtf file "Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson" back on the step 1 page with a hold for me, I'll be glad to fix the story titles. Fortunately, the book has a good table of contents and it appears to have good pagination so it shouldn't be much of a problem. I take it back, I have seen Hadley School for the Blind contribute to this list. Thanks Hadley, and sorry for the oversight. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 12:53 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles > > When I was doing the list of books-added that John is doing now (Thank > you, John), I found very poorly written and in fact totally eroneous > synopses of books provided by outsourcers, plus missing series titles and > sometimes incorrect titles. I've never downloaded any books, of course,but > I have serious doubts about their quality. I think Carrie stepped in and > trained that particular group, and it sounds as if someone needs to do > that with this group. > > > Cindy > > Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and > books-being-scanned list available at sites below > > > > Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List > > Books Being Scanned List: > https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List > > > --- On Fri, 5/8/09, EVAN REESE <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> From: EVAN REESE <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles >> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Date: Friday, May 8, 2009, 7:34 PM >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Hmmm, if I'm at the >> point where I'm missing the >> beginning of a new chapter or worse, the beginning of a new >> story, I go to bed >> or do something else until my mind is ready to stay on the >> book. >> >> More to the point is that >> apparently noone at >> Bookshare bothered to tell Daproim Africa how to protect >> section headings in >> books. Which seems strange to me, given the amount of >> bandwidth that has been >> devoted to this topic on this list. Makes me wonder how >> familiar those who >> communicate with the outsourcers are with how books get >> into the collection, >> especially about issues that can affect quality such as >> section headings being >> stripped unless they are protected in some way. Anyone from >> the staff who has >> spent much time on this list would have known to tell them >> to take care of that. >> Currently, I see that D.A. has added 1,032 books to the >> collection. If they were >> not told about protecting headings, then I wonder >> what the chances are that >> any of the other outsourcers were advised about this. Which >> means that there may >> well be thousands upon thousands of books, fairly recently >> added books, that >> will be missing chapter titles, story titles, >> etc. >> >> I certainly hope that this >> is not the >> case. >> >> Evan >> >> >> ----- Original Message >> ----- >> From: >> Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx >> >> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> >> Sent: Friday, May >> 08, 2009 7:55 PM >> Subject: >> [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing >> story titles >> >> Sometimes even with the titles there I >> somehow >> miss them. In fact, even with human narrated NLS books >> they have managed to >> slip by me. I am inclined to think that we need an >> announcement something like >> this: "Attention! Attention! Attention! A new story >> is about to start! Prepare >> yourself to switch gears. The last story has ended! Read >> on and you will be >> reading another story!" >> >> >> >> "Philosophers have merely >> interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to >> change it." Karl >> Marx >> >> table with 2 columns and 6 >> rows >> Subj: >> [bksvol-discuss] Missing story >> titles >> Date: >> 5/8/2009 6:06:53 PM Eastern >> Daylight >> Time >> From: >> rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Reply-to: >> bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To: >> bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Sent >> from the Internet >> (Details) >> table end >> >> I am currently >> reading >> >> "Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna >> Henderson". >> >> This is a book of short stories, and, dammit, some of >> the story titles are missing. >> >> There's nothing more disparaging >> than to be reading a story and have something >> surrealistic happen only >> to find out it's a different story. >> >> We had this >> problem with the old stripper but I thought her younger >> daughter had learned >> better. >> >> Can't engineering fix something as minor as a story >> title? >> >> Bob (mad as a wet hen)! >> >> "Never doubt that a small >> group of thoughtful, >> committed citizens can change the world. 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