[bksvol-discuss] Re: Tips For Getting Your Book Wishes Filled
- From: Mayrie ReNae <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:35:43 -0700
Hi Jamie,
Yes, please, if you remove headers, and the page number
falls on the same line as the header, please do leave the page number
in the book. Also, there are tools that are supposed to remove
headers. Unfortunately, they do not remove headers unless each
header is exactly alike, that includes the number of spaces before,
after, and between words. I personally really appreciate it when
headers are removed by the submitter or the validator. The BookShare
tools don't do a very good job of removing them, because it is very
rare that headers are exactly uniform throughout a book. However,
not removing headers will not result in rejection of a book.
Peace,
Mayrie
At 02:37 PM 9/8/2007, you wrote:
If there are running headers in a book with page numbers on the same
line, should the page numbers be left when the header text is
removed? If I have validated a book without removing headers, am I
correct that Bookshare has a tool that will do this thereby not
causing my otherwise good validation to be rejected? Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>Monica Willyard
To: <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>Bookshare Volunteers ;
<mailto:bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>Bookshare Discuss
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 3:30 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Tips For Getting Your Book Wishes Filled
Hi, everyone. If you've got some requests for books you'd love to
read that aren't in the Bookshare collection, I'd like to share some
tips with you that could help you get your wishes filled. Some will
seem obvious to you while others may not have even crossed your
mind. I hope you'll find an idea here that helps you get some of
your book wishes filled.
1. When you post your request, make sure you give both the title and
the author. Please make sure you spell the author's name correctly
since it's what our volunteers use to search for books in library
catalogs or on Amazon.
2. Get people interested in your book. Include a description of the
book. Paste it from Amazon, describe it yourself, or paste in a
review of the book from somewhere. In other words, get someone
motivated to scan the book because it sounds good. Posting a title
and author is nice, and yet it doesn't give our submitters much to
go on to see if they'd like working on the book. At the end of the
day, volunteers are people, and people are more willing to take
action when they like the idea.
3. Offer to edit/validate the book when it's scanned. Doing this
lets submitters know that their work won't just sit around in
validation limbo for ages. If you say you'll edit the book,
submitters will know that you'll take care of stripping headers. I'd
scan a lot more wishes if I wasn't responsible for doing header
stripping before submitting. As it is, you kind of have to sell me
on a book before I'll scan it because I know I'll have to do the
headers. It's a necessary chore with my own books. I would dread
doing it on a book I don't even want to read.
4. If you can do so, offer to buy a used or new copy of a book if
someone will scan it. While some volunteers are able to get to a
library, many others aren't. I know that a lot of submitters have
bought books that have been requested. If you can't afford to buy
the books, please don't let that prevent you from asking for books.
Just be aware that offering to buy books to be scanned is one way to
help you get books into the collection.
5. Ok, I know this is really obvious, and yet I don't see it done
often. When someone scans one of your book requests, say "thank you"
in in private mail or on the list. Most of us want to know if anyone
reads the books we scan. Since we can't see how many times a book is
downloaded, we have no way of knowing if our book has been read at
all. A little recognition can make the job of scanning book requests
rewarding for the person doing the scan and will make it more likely
that the submitter will work on book requests in the future.
I hope you find some of these ideas useful. I'm not the ultimate
authority on volunteering. What do you think about these tips? Do
you have other ideas to add to this list?
Monica Willyard
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