You may not share them. If you are going to volunteer, please know that
page numbers and page breaks are important to many bookshare users. If
someone reada novel and reports on it for a course he or she needs page
numbers to quote. Page numbers are also useful in other contexts.
You may also want to let us know what tools you are going to use to
contribute to bookshare. That way, if anyone has experiences they want to
share as a volunteer regarding those tools, the info may be valuable to you.
We are happy you are joining us. Are you interested in beginning by
validating or by scanning? Again welcome!
E.
At 10:06 PM 10/1/2006, you wrote:
Hi:
My name is Mark. I'm a new BookShare volunteer: I'm here 'cause I really, really would like to help these readers/would-be-readers who're blind.
Could use/would appreciate your thoughts.
I've been reading your postings for a week now - reading about "blank pages", about "page numbers", about "I wouldn't read a fair book", about "copies of the (C)opyright page(s)", about scanning and fonts and descriptions of pictures and ...
I'm new ... and I think that all that *I'd* want, were I blind, is - regards novels, that is - is "a good read". I'd not care about page numbers and blank pages and ... and I'm not trying to criticize the directions and the concerns of which I've recently read - rather, I'm writing that these concerns "just aren't concerns that I share".
I'm interested in submitting short stories novels in the following "style" - and I'm asking you, here & now, if what I'm interested in doing is what all-of-you are interested in validating ...
First page, first line - *Name of the Book"*
First page, second line - (blank)
First page, third line - *Name of the Author*
First page, fourth line - (blank)
First page, fifth line - *(C)opyright date*, plus *who owns/owned the (C)opyright*
First page, sixth line - (blank)
First page, SEVENTH line - *(Novel starts here ...)
Last page, last line - (... Novel ends here)*
I'd be submitting books that I've enjoyed as, well, as a teenager and young adult. Science Fiction, mostly - Van Vogt, Clemens, Simak - older stuff, mostly out-of-print.
I don't think that this - call it "a style" - is likely to be accepted by you validators ... but perhaps I'm wrong, PERHAPS such a novel or story might be used "as is" (judging by the email that I've received, I think not ... but I *could* be wrong). OR, perhaps it could be accepted by you validators as a "fair book" (if I understand what a "fair book" is?). OR perhaps someone would like to take what I might submit, and then (saving themselves some work?) - and then add whatever ELSE they might feel to be appropriate. Polish it. Whatever. I don't care. I just want to help.
Folks, I just don't know. I'm new here. And I've asked for thoughts - I asked for thoughts when I submitted a couple of books, and I asked for thoughts last week (in an email sent to this discussion group), and I'm asking now.
See, I'd known of BookShare for YEARS ... and it had always seemed to be an exciting way to help people! I'm a nurse officer, now retired, but *I still like to "be involved"*, and, well, if there's room for me and my work, then *that'd be great*.
And if not, that'll be OK, too. I'll find something else to do with my optional time ...
Let me know what you think, please. I've got text that could be submitted. AND I'll submit it in Micro$oft's .RTF (or is it .RFT?) - ug! - format. But I'll not bother if it won't meet the needs of BookShare (as validated by you volunteers).
Send me a private email, if you feel that to be appropriate.
Thanks for your time.
Regards.
Mark.
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