[bksvol-discuss] Re: US English vs British English
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:10:16 -0700 (PDT)
o.k.
Cindy
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> Hi volunteers,
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> Please mark the appropriate box for the appropriate language. I
> please continue to mark the appropriate box for the language(s) that the book
> is
> written in.
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>
> Madeleine Linares
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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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