[bksvol-discuss] Re: ReTextbooks
- From: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:41:57 -0700
Re: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A bit of a complaintHello, Lisa,
I'm puzzled by your comment, "Hopefully we won't be scanning too many
textbooks." Did you mean that you hope to be able to get them digitally from
the publisher?
In the meantime, they would need to be scanned. Wouldn't school accounts want
textbooks now?
Lori
hope to be able to get them in
----- Original Message -----
From: Lisa Friendly
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:04 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A bit of a complaint
The solution is to get them digitally from publishers and that is what we're
working on. Hopefully we won't be scanning too many textbooks.
If you ever need one for a specific class, let us know. We can start by
trying to get it from the publisher.
Lisa
On 8/28/07 1:47 PM, "Sharon" <mt281820@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Textbooks are difficult to scan when they have tables, sidebars, pictures,
captions, weird column layouts, graphs, etc. Sharon
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Monica Willyard
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:25 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A bit of a complaint
I've been thinking about what many of you have said. I can see both
sides of this issue to a point. It leads me to some questions. Is it the
nature of textbooks that they will scan poorly? Dr. Cross seems to do a very
nice job with his, and some of those are over 1,000 pages. Is a poorly
scanned textbook actually useful to a student? I don't know the answer to
this since I scanned my own textbooks for college back in the early 90s.
Maybe I'm just in a clutter clearing mood this week. In the past, I was
more likely to take a scan rated good or fair if I could see the name of the
submitter and knew I could contact that person. Even now, I'd take on a book
with a warning that the book was a really tough scan, is a requested textbook
for someone, or that it's a person's first few scans. Seeing a book uploaded
by the infamous "a Bookshare volunteer" is sort of like poison ivy to me. I
don't touch it unless I have to. A book marked as fair and that is anonymous
as well is something I don't want to deal with unless I have tons of free time
and nothing else to scan or validate. I used to spend weeks on such books,
especially textbooks, and it made me feel stressed and sort of crazy trying to
fix it all because I knew students would be using the books. I can't help but
wonder if anyone even read those books. By the time I was able to validate
them into legible shape, the person's class would have been over long ago.
Monica Willyard
Grandma Cindy wrote:
Cindy Ray/Lou,
You make some good points. Re number three, though--if
the person who needs the text submitted it, he/she has
it. If it's someone who asked for a scan, he/she can
validate it and use it at the same time. smile
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