[bksvol-discuss] Re: Questions about scanned textbooks

  • From: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:33:38 -0400

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The context in which it came up before was the issue of submitting ebooks. Those are not permitted and the rule that was mentioned was that a submission should be a hard copy that has been scanned. I think it was worded such that you should scan it yourself, but that was just the wording and did not anticipate that someone might scan a book for another person. I am sure that if it is a hard copy book that has been scanned it is okay. You do make another good point though. Be sure that you check the collection to see if a book you are contemplating submitting is already there. Without looking myself I did notice that some of the titles mentioned were titles that were very likely to already be in the collection.

On 6/19/2012 7:05 AM, Deborah Murray wrote:

Hi Dornetta,

 

I'd definitely wait for an answer from BookShare on whether you can submit a book you didn't personally scan. I vaguely remember something like that came up early on and I don't remember how it was finally resolved.

 

Lies My Teacher Told Me... is already in the collection with an excellent rating.

 

Deborah

 

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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Questions about scanned textbooks

 

Hello Volunteers!

I posed this question another volunteer who suggested that I ask the list so here it goes. I have several books that the disability office at school has scanned for me, the books are textbooks for the Early Childhood Development and School Age Child degree program. I was reading through the safe publisher's list and that several of the publishers of these books are in the safe column. My question is this, if I clean up the scans is it ethical for me to upload them to bookshare providing that I did not do the scans myself? These are very informative textbooks that can also be read as stand-alone books for those who wish to do so.

I also have a book called, "Lies my Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Got Wrong" and "The Traveling Pants"(which is a book about the eco-friendly deham jeans.) Both of these were used as "readers" (stand alone text) for my sociology class. Oh yea, how could I forget about the World Religion book (I just forgot the name is all-but this was also a stand alone book for the sociology class)

Please advise, 

Netta

 

"Just because you are blind does not mean you lack vision"-Stevie Wonder

 

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