Hi, Robin. I agree with you. I think, though, at least for me, there are
some types of books I would scan regardless of the statistics, like the book
I'm working on right now. I really want this book for my own personal use,
and it's taking a lot of cleanup to get it to where I want it for the site,
but since I plan on using this book, it's worth it. No matter what settings
I use, there are some consistent errors I'm having to fix, so I don't know
if the font is strange in some places or what the problem might be. Anyway,
all that to say there are some books at least I would scan, regardless of
the statistics, but there are some that, frankly, again, at least for me, I
wouldn't bother with and let someone who is more interested in them do the
leg work if I knew they weren't highly popular. Besides that, at least for
me, I think it would be nice to know what I scan is being read, but that's
just for my own personal satisfaction. <smile> Take care.
Julie Morales
Life is a gift from God. What we do with it is our gift to Him.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Mandell" <robinmandell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 9:26 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Number of books
I know I'm coming in late on this thread, so if I'm not understanding the
quesiton at hand correctly, I appologize. While I see the benefit of
knowing which books are more popular with bookshare.org subscribers, I
would not want to see a decline in submissions of less popular
books. Understanding the numbers might help us prioritize books,
especially books in a series as Mike pointed out. One of the nice things
about bookshare, though, is that one can find some of the more obscure
books which people contribute from their own personal collections.
At 05:30 AM 09/01/2006, you wrote:
>Mike,
> Of course, but this one I think falls lower on the priorities. Things
> like the submission form I would rather see updated first.
>
>And as you said a while back, this type of data Benetech might not want to
>release.
>
>Jake
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 8:21 PM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Number of books
>
>
>>And so we did on CompuServe.
>>It really gave us a good feel of files people wanted and which just took
>>up space.
>>As a submitter, I wonder which books are valued by the customers and which
>>just are there.
>>This type of info would also be useful in deciding whether scanning other
>>books in a series warranted the time commitment.
>>
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