[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT? You know you're a Bookshare volunteer if...
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 20:32:18 -0800 (PST)
Thanks, Judy. I chuckled a lot
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 Mon, 2/8/10, Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT? You know you're a Bookshare volunteer if...
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 6:50 PM
> Hi Judy!
>
> This is just terrific! Thank you so much for sharing
> it!
>
> Mayrie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Judy s.
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 5:37 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT? You know you're a Bookshare
> volunteer if...
>
> I don't want to clutter the list, but I've had a really
> massively bad month
> and decided to write up something totally lighthearted and
> frivolous
> tonight, just to relax and have a little fun.
> smile. Enjoy.
>
> You know you're a Bookshare Volunteer if.
>
> - You've ever worn out a scanner;
> - you're thrilled that the books you just bought on eBay
> have loose spines
> because they'll scan easier and you don't feel guilty about
> damaging them if
> it happens;
> - you automatically change "die" to "the" in everything you
> read, because it
> just has to be a scanno, right?
> - you know where to find or have memorized the codes to put
> into Word or
> Kurzweil to search for a smart quote, a tab, a paragraph
> mark or a carriage
> return;
> - you know what a header is in a book;
> - someone says the word stripper and you immediately think
> "page break blank
> line page number blank line" instead of "seedy night
> clubs";
> - you have more books to read than time to read them for
> the first time in
> your life, and those aren't the ones you're reading because
> you're scanning
> or proofreading yet another book;
> - you've ever scanned or proofread a book you discovered
> you absolutely
> hated halfway through, and finished it anyways because
> someone else asked
> you for help with it;
> - you proofread or scanned a book instead of listening to
> the Superbowl;
> - the local librarian tells you you're their most active
> patron and the
> staff is dying to know why because you're blind and can't
> read printed
> books; and
> - You know that Cherry Ames isn't a new soft drink!
>
> Judy s.
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