[bksvol-discuss] Volunteering help
- From: taylorarndt99@xxxxxxxxx
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:49:16 -0500
Hi, I am a new volunteer. I need to try to figure out what to do. I read to
help, but I had to reject a book that I checked out, because there was not a
lot of page breaks. How do I tell this if I am blind? I need tips from a blind
proofread it would be much appreciated, and I'm very new to this. And I don't
really know what I'm doing yet, but really want to learn.
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> On Feb 13, 2015, at 9:15 PM, Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello Folks,
>
> We continue to have a good showing to discuss our books. All those who read
> it very much enjoyed The Companions by Sheri S. Tepper. For our next meeting,
> we’ve chosen a book by someone who isn’t generally considered a Science
> Fiction writer, but this book certainly is SF. It’s a tale with plenty of
> action, but which also raises some very thought provoking questions which are
> beginning to be considered by forward looking thinkers, and will become only
> more urgent in the next couple decades. We’ve chosen The Kraken Project by
> Douglas Preston.
>
> The next meeting of the Science Fiction club will take place on Thursday,
> March 12, 2015.
>
> Place, Book Nook at:
>
> http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e
>
> Time: 9 PM Eastern, 8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific, and 02:00 UTC.
>
> Our book, The Kraken Project, is available from both BARD and Bookshare.
>
> The link to the BARD version is at:
>
> http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.79300
>
> Here is the NLS annotation:
>
> NASA is designing an exploratory probe to be dropped into the Titan methane
> sea, Kraken Mare. But during testing an explosion kills seven scientists and
> the probe's AI program flees into the Internet. Ex-CIA agent Wyman Ford must
> track down the rogue software.
>
> The link to the Bookshare version is at:
>
> https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/829338
>
> The Bookshare Long Synopsis reads as follows:
>
> Wyman Ford is back again in The Kraken Project, the thrilling new novel from
> New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston. NASA is building a probe
> to be splashed down in the Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Saturn's great
> moon, Titan. It is one of the most promising habitats for extraterrestrial
> life in the solar system, but the surface is unpredictable and dangerous,
> requiring the probe to contain artificial intelligence software. To this
> end, Melissa Shepherd, a brilliant programmer, has developed "Dorothy," a
> powerful, self-modifying AI whose true potential is both revolutionary and
> terrifying. When miscalculations lead to a catastrophe during testing,
> Dorothy flees into the internet. Former CIA agent Wyman Ford is tapped to
> track down the
> rogue AI. As Ford and Shepherd search for Dorothy, they realize that her
> horrific experiences in the wasteland of the Internet have changed her in
> ways they can barely imagine. And they're not the only ones looking for the
> wayward software: the AI is also being pursued by a pair of Wall Street
> traders, who want to capture her code and turn her into a high-speed trading
> bot. Traumatized, angry, and relentlessly hunted, Dorothy has an
> extraordinary revelation--and devises a plan. As the pursuit of Dorothy
> converges on a deserted house on the coast of Northern California, Ford must
> face the ultimate question: is rescuing Dorothy the right thing? Is the AI
> bent on saving the world... or on wiping out the cancer that is humankind?
>
> Finally, here’s a glowing review from Booklist taken from Amazon’s page for
> The Kraken Project:
>
> *Starred Review* Preston’s latest solo novel (he’s mostly known as one half
> of the Preston-Child team who write the Special Agent Pendergast series)
> takes a wildly implausible premise and turns it into a very entertaining
> thriller. The Kraken Project is a NASA initiative to send a probe to Titan, a
> large moon of Saturn. Because of the distance involved, real-time control of
> the probe is impossible, so NASA decides to make the probe autonomous via
> cutting-edge artificial-intelligence software. But the software, called
> Dorothy, malfunctions and escapes into the Internet, where it plans a reign
> of terror that begins with revenge against its creator and will end with the
> annihilation of humankind itself. Dorothy’s creator goes on the run; Wyman
> Ford, ex-CIA agent and star of a few previous novels, is tasked by the
> president to find the woman (who, most everyone suspects, deliberately
> unleashed Dorothy).
> Whether or not you buy the premise of sentient software roaming the Internet,
> you won’t be able to deny that this is an exciting story. Preston sells the
> premise by sheer force of will: his characters are so compelling, his
> storytelling so persuasive, that we buy it all completely, at least as long
> as we’re inside the book. Bravo.
>
> But there’s a bit more to the book than simply an excellent thriller. Come
> join us to talk about this one next month.
>
> Evan
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