Yes, and if you have the credits why not get an account so you have the option of reading a book now and then!
Cat Lover Lori----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 8:25 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] To Gary, On Not Having a Bookshare Account
Gary, your message surprised me. I hadn't considered that someone would volunteer but would choose not to have a Bookshare account though eligible for one. You are showing me another side to the story than I had considered. I'll need to think about it for awhile to try to understand how you see things. May I offer you some food for thought? I don't know if you have ever had an account, so please forgive me for repeating something you may already know. The Bookshare collection has changed a lot since Lisa Friendly came on board as the product manager. If you had an account in the early days of Bookshare, I can easily see why you'd feel frustrated at the lack of consistency in quality. Over the past year and a half, the quality of scanned books has improved markedly. Bookshare staff have replaced many of the books in the roughest shape, and they are a pleasure to read. Though we complain about specific books with issues, I would say that the majority of books that are approved these days are quite readable. I've noticed a clear shift in focus from quantity to quality over the past couple of years, and there are several volunteers who are steadily working on rescanning older books that are in rough shape. I think we complain now because we've seen how good a well-scanned book can be, and we want all books to be that way. I know you build up credits from volunteering, probably enough to cover getting an account. Maybe the new Bookshare is worth a second look? You might be pleasantly surprised. (smile) -- Monica Willyard Visit my blog at http://www.scannersguild.com On 8/9/08, Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Except I know of people, including myself, who do not have BookShare accounts in the Hopes of finding a book I want to read in readable condition. I would like toread different books than NLS produces, but I do not want to guess at their meaning or construction. I'm redoing books right now which are supposedly in the collection but in varying degrees of unreadability. The reason I do them is because that's the only way I can read them. If I didn't have to doit, that would be fine with me. I just wish we could get at publishers' backlists and get them in an accessible format.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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