Dear Robert W.
When you've been on the list a while you'll find
that we volunteers are on a
continuum in the matter of our satisfaction or
frustration with Bookshare
and its staff.
I'm way way at the top of the high end of
satisfaction. I'm so proud of Jim
for winning the prestigious, well deserved award for
his inventive
contribution to human well being, bookshare being a
part of that
contribution.
Bookshare still feels like a huge gift, to me, both
the downloading of books
and the opportunity to validate. It's such a
beautiful bubble I still get
scared it'll burst! I remember way long ago when I
heard in the TV news that
Stevie wonder had a reading machine, and feeling
sorry for myself because
I'd never, ever have that kind of wealth to get a
machine like his and I'd
never be able to read the print books that I
foolishly bought knowing I'd
never be able to read them
Since Bookshare, not even 2 years ago yet for me,
I've donated boxes of
those print books to our library book sales because
I've either found them
in the collection or because Volunteers here at
least a dozen of them, have
scanned them for me and I've had the thrill of
reading them as I validate so
don't need to keep the print copies anymore.
Yep, I've given up on a few blotchy books, too full
of scrambled dots on my
braille note to puzzle out, but I've also read the
equivalent of piles of
great BRF files and have hundreds more waiting for
me to find time to enjoy
them.
To me it's as if we have a super highway through the
world of books which,
though it might have a few pot holes scattered about
still gets us to books
that weren't on the map before. It's a highway where
a few years ago we
didn't even have a path through the forest, where we
could have bumped
around pointlessly, tired, battered, hungry and
frustrated because we'd
finally make our way out without a single accessible
book to show for our
trouble.
Sometimes I think contented people aren't as
motivated to
affirm their satisfaction so I'm sharing my point of
view so you can see
both sides of the coin. And, I've learned that those
of us who express
frustration on list help the system to evolve, which
it has done, steadily.
By the time the elements that need attention are
addressed, we'll be after
the staff with a new list of must have upgrades.
Actually the evolution is
pretty exciting and the volunteers here have
ingenious ideas that would
never occur to me. ,
Specifically, I'm not sure when you dropped in but
if you give us the names
of the books you've had trouble with, some of us may
pick them up to rescan,
resubmit, validate, and upload. and you'll see what
good work we can do.
Since you're on the list, maybe we can help you to
work on a BSO copy so you
can be part of the solution. I'm a slow worker, but
last year I validated 4
books that were better versions of inaccurate books
in the collection. I
think you'll like the feeling you get when a book
you've worked on is
approved and pops up on the new books list.
I hope you'll have happier reading ahead.
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Woody" <spongebob5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 9:51 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Why No Book Reviews?
> It doesn't appear that anything changes on
Bookshare. Do people
> really work there?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Elizabeth and Burton"
<thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 8:40 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Why No Book Reviews?
>
>
>> Cindy, do remember that John and Gustavo are
apparently so busy that they
>> are having a bit of lag time with volunteers. I
just wonder if we get
>> them started on adding reviews if they will have
less time to say approve
>> books or write those helpful additions to
bookshare site we all ask for
>> describing various aspects of volunteering
submitting and validating.
>> (smile)
>>
>> E.
>> At 08:19 PM 1/5/2007, you wrote:
>>>When I submitted mine recently a notice appeared
>>>saying that it would be reviewed and added in a
couple
>>>or a few days. I'll write and ask John what's
going on
>>>with that.
>>>
>>>Cindy
>>>
>>>--- Elizabeth and Burton <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>> > Bookshare may be not up to putting up reviews
just
>>> > now. Sounds as if they
>>> > have all they can handle at the moment. They
saved
>>> > it I am sure. They
>>> > used to send out an automated message thanking
the
>>> > reviewer and saying it
>>> > would be up on the site as soon as feasible.
I only
>>> > submitted a couple of
>>> > reviews and that was years ago. I wonder
though
>>> > that they would stop the
>>> > automated message. I thought it a nice touch
at the
>>> > time.
>>> >
>>> > E.
>>> > At 05:45 PM 1/5/2007, you wrote:
>>> > >Hi,
>>> > >I submitted a review for the hunt for red
october a
>>> > while back -- I
>>> > >checked three months ago and it still wasn't
up on
>>> > the site. It's been
>>> > >about a year now. smile. That's why I don't
review
>>> > anymore.
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >Munawar A. Bijani
>>> >
>>>
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>>> > >-----Original Message-----
>>> > >From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> >
>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
>>> > Behalf Of Robert Woody
>>> > >Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 10:10 AM
>>> > >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> > >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Why No Book
Reviews?
>>> > >
>>> > > Why are the reviews of books always blank?
This
>>> > feature is used a lot
>>> > > on Amazon,
>>> > >but not a bit on Bookshare.
>>> >
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>>>
>>>Cindy
>>>
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