[bksvol-discuss] Re: US English vs British English
- From: Madeleine Linares <Madeleinel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:20:41 +0000
Hi volunteers,
Please mark the appropriate box for the appropriate language. I realized that
the two different English options makes searching irritating, and I will
certainly pass along those thoughts to Engineering, but in the meantime,
please, please continue to mark the appropriate box for the language(s) that
the book is written in.
Thanks so much!
Best,
Madeleine Linares
Volunteer Coordinator
Bookshare, a Benetech Initiative
650-644-3459
madeleinel@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 1:45 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Awesome - 151,663 Titles on Bookshare
You bring up a good point, Roger, one that I, and I think you and some others,
have complained about before; when the default language is U.S. English, one
cannot find books that have been designated British English; can one if one
changes the language choice to Any? I can't remember, and I haven't tried.
recently. Maybe we shouldn't designate British English, as we've been
directed, when we upload books we';ve proofed; I don't supposed members will be
concerned with difference in spelling and punctuation. The words sound alike if
a member is listening to a book; I don't know what Braille would do. And
sighted members would figure out soon enough that the spelling is British and
not U.S. , and not spelling mistakes.
Cindy
----- Original Message -----
> From: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc:
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 1:15 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Awesome - 151,663 Titles on Bookshare
>
> It is interesting that when I click the search button without filling
> anything in the search field I thought I was getting a list of every
> book Bookshare has, but I only get 145,688 titles returned. I don't
> really have a lot of reason to have a list of every single book in the
> collection sitting right in front of me, but I thought that was a way
> to find out how many books were in the collection. It is apparently not. I
> think I see the reason for the discrepancy.
> I have my advanced search settings set for as broad a search of the
> collection as possible and assume that if I want it to be narrower I
> can narrow it for a specific search when I do that specific search.
> The problem seems to be the language. I have it set to search American
> English and I see no way to search for more than one language at a
> time. The only reason I would have to search for all languages at once
> is to see how many books are in the collection, but that is now taken
> care of by this new counter feature. However, it would really be nice
> if I could search for American English and British English at the same
> time. They are treated as separate languages though. I can see why the
> choice of specifying a language is there. There is no point in
> searching for books in a language that one cannot read. However, when
> it comes to British English and American English there really should
> not be anyone who can read one and not the other. I don't see why they
> are treated as different languages in the search feature. As long as they
> are, though, does anyone know how to search both at one time without having
> to do a different search for each language?
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