[bksvol-discuss] Re: The World
- From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:56:26 -0500
Sarah,
Your post did a much better job of what I was trying to say with my original
post on this subject. There are definitely times when no book is better than
poor quality, because the existence of a book at all might let
somebody off the hook of providing a really usable one. And as you say, text
books are instances where this is all too likely to happen, both with regard to
the quality issues they pose for ocr, especially if you can't see
the original to try to make corrections, and with regard to the liklihood of
some institution trying to get out of providing a better copy, Its a real shame
that we don't have a uniformly enforced strict law that text book
publishers would be required to make alternative format copies of all their
books available to students.
Mary
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