[bksvol-discuss] Re: That Good Reads Profile
- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:16:07 -0700
Hi, Roger, I'd say your message is concise, very descriptive, and hopefully
more folks will flock to Bookshare. The Bookshare staff needs all the help
it can get. Regards, Kim aka Ellinder.
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] That Good Reads Profile
Okay, somehow I managed to save the plug for Bookshare I wrote at
GoodReads.com. I really do think I did a much better job before I found out
that there was a 2000 character limit and I think my subsequent efforts were
better than the one I just managed to save, but this one has 1758 characters
and can be touched up. Let me suggest that you guys do something similar
there or elsewhere. There are scads of literary sites around the web where
there might be many readers who would be glad to volunteer, but do not even
know that Bookshare exists. Let me show you what I wrote and you can make
suggestions. Here is what I wrote:
I am a lifelong reader. Since I learned to read in early elementary school I
do not recall any time that I have not been in the process of reading some
book. As an adult, though, there came a time that I thought that was going
to come to an end. I became diabetic and my diabetes took away my eyesight.
My reading continued though. I just had to use alternative means. One of
those means that I have been using lately is Bookshare. Its web site is
http://bookshare.org. It is a collaborative effort by people who are
disabled in a way that makes it impossible to read normal print to continue
reading books anyway. Bookshare depends on volunteers to turn print books
into ebooks that can be read by print impaired people by means of a screen
reader with a synthetic voice or in Braille. If you are a reader and enjoy
sharing your books with others I encourage you to become a volunteer for
Bookshare. Volunteers may be disabled or not. There are two main jobs that
volunteers do. One is to scan books and upload them for proofreading. The
other is to download them and proofread them. If you do not have a scanner
or OCR software you might want to try proofreading. To do that you just read
the text and correct any scanning errors and then upload it for
administrator approval. Once it is approved it enters the library. It is
illegal for non disabled persons to download books from that library, but if
you proofread you will not run out of books to read at Bookshare. You may
work as little or as much as you want, so if you do not see a book on the
list of books waiting for proofreading that you are interested in you can
just check back the next day and you probably will find one. Come join our
community. Visit the Bookshare web site and consider becoming a volunteer.
"If you tremble
with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine." Che
Guevara
The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com/txtindex.shtml
<http://wwww.themilitant.com> Pathfinder Press:
http://www.pathfinderpress.com
Granma International: http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html
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