[bksvol-discuss] Re: Sent These to Bookshare

  • From: "Chela Robles" <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:08:42 -0800

Hey what is PG, Cindy?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 11:52 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sent These to Bookshare


I didn't know that My volunteer work started as a scanner for PG--on my home scanner. I did mail one book to PG to scane because it was an old Mark twain with beautiful illustrations and I knew the illustrations wouldn't scan The book was returned to me intact.
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 Thu, 11/5/09, Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sent These to Bookshare
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 8:25 PM
Hi Roger!

Thanks for telling us about Project Gutenberg's procedure
being like
Bookshare's.  It's things like this we need to know.

Debby

At 09:53 AM 11/5/2009, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
wrote
>As a matter of fact, that is how Project Gutenberg does
it too, so if you
>have a valuable or collectible book, for goodness sake,
don't send it to
>either organization.
>
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>[bksvol-discuss] Re: Sent These to Bookshare
>Date:
>11/5/2009 2:37:57 AM Eastern Standard Time
>From:
>kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx
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>Hi, Debby, when I send stuff to Bookshare, they don't
send the books back,
>and for my part, I don't expect them to do so. As I
understand it, they
>remove the covers and chop the books so the pages can
be fed through a
>document-reader-type scanner. I think that's why people
might send them a
>lot of paperback books. (Pavi, please correct me if I'm
wrong about this
>one. I suppose you do the same with hardback books.)
Regards, Kim.
>
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On Behalf Of Debby Franson
>Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:31 PM
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sent These to Bookshare
>
>Hi everyone!
>
>When people send books to bookshare, do they return the
print books or not?
>
>Debby
>
>At 12:43 PM 11/4/2009, Christina wrote
> >Hi, guys.
> >I sent the following books to Bookshare for
processing: A Song for
> >Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay, The Lions of al-Rassan
by Guy Gavriel Kay,
> >and Grey Knights an Omnibus (Warhammer 40,000.)
Christina
> >
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