[bksvol-discuss] Re: Watch Out for the Wrong PQ Book
- From: "Ixchel, Jackie (M.E)" <starsandhearts2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:04:02 -0500
Has anyone reported these books?
On 2/20/12, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have been contemplating downloading that one myself. I am glad you
> gave the warning before I did. This, by the way, is a definite case to
> make a quality report about. Now and then I have seen other publisher
> books that have been added to the collection that I have not downloaded
> but that I find questionable as to whether they really should be in the
> collection such as books of excerpts of other books that have been
> apparently compiled just for promotional purposes. I would question why
> anyone would download something like that when they could download the
> whole books.
>
> On 2/20/2012 6:56 PM, Evan Reese wrote:
>> Today I had an odd experience on Bookshare. I downloaded a book called
>> This Will Make You Smarter edited by John Brockman. I went to Amazon
>> first to read a bit about it before deciding to check Bookshare. It
>> said there that the book was published last Tuesday. So I went to
>> Bookshare and found a PQ copy of the book. I looked it up under the
>> editor's name, and when I found the title I looked no further.
>> Interestingly, the date of addition was December 12, 2011. I was
>> impressed. It seemed that HarperCollins was giving Bookshare their
>> books even before they were officially published. Well, that turned
>> out not to be quite the case. After downloading and unzipping the brf
>> copy of the book, I found that it' was only 22.1Kb in size. The table
>> of contents had only a couple of the essays in it, and only what was
>> in the table of contents was in that copy. So I went back up to
>> Bookshare and entered the title into Advanced search. It was then that
>> I found two copies of the book, the severely truncated one I had
>> gotten originally, and the full edition, 545Kb in size for the brf
>> version, that was added on the same date it was officially published,
>> February 14.
>> I don't know how many other instances of this kind of thing there
>> might be, but I thought I should mention it here. Don't stop when you
>> find the first occurrence of a book title you're looking for, and if
>> there is more than one instance, get the one with the most recent date
>> of addition.
>> Evan
>
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