[bksvol-discuss] Re: Wrote just now to Pavi
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- Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:47:21 EST
Thank you. It is so easy to be misunderstood in an email. Not only did I
not imagine that I might offend by the reminder of the wish list, but I did
not imagine that any announcement of not being offended would be necessary
either.
"I have no country to fight for; my country is
the earth, and I am a citizen of the world." Eugene V. Debs
The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press:
http://www.pathfinderpress.com
Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
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Hi, Roger, you know, I did understand where you were coming from. It makes
me happy to fill in gaps in book series for one thing. I like the sense of
closure,
second, I benefit because when plots are filled in, nobody has to grieve
because they don't know what's happening next. Think of this as a service; I'm
the gal that fills in the O's. I started out doing this because of my
desire to "Know what happens next". The one sort of book I haven't gotten for
Bookshare
are folksong collections. It may interest me, but I'm not so sure if other
people would care for that sort of thing.
I suppose I should search amazon.com for retellings of world myths (The Gree
ks are well-represented so I want the stuff that isn't well-represented.)
Take
care and best regards, Kim. P.S.: I like the tag line. K.
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Wrote just now to Pavi
Let me make something clear. I did not urge Kim to spend money on wish list
books just to make people happy per se. It was simply that she mentioned
making
people happy as a strong reason for buying books and sending them to
Bookshare and I suggested that if she was going to spend the money anyway she
could
be better assured that it would make someone happy if she selected books
from the wish list to buy. It occurred to me that she might not have thought
of
that. As for myself, I don't have much money to spend on books, but even
so, I have bought some for Bookshare myself. In my case, though, given that
limited
budget, I have bought some books to scan myself and if I am going to put
all the effort into them that scanning entails my prime criteria for selecting
them is to make me happy. I have put a number of titles on the wish list
that are a bit too expensive for me and are not available in my local library,
but I have no intention of asking anyone else to spend money on them for
me. I simply figure that if they are on the wish list they might stand a
better
chance to make it into the collection by whatever means than if they are
not there. One of them, in fact, I have my eye on as a possible scan for
myself.
I just might fulfill one of my own wishes. If, on the other hand, my
motivation was to just make other people happy by either spending my money or
time
on books I do think I would look more closely at the wish list for making a
selection. Even so, though, I would, of course, look for books on the wish
list that I was interested in too and give those priority. I think any of
us would do that. Whatever the case, though, I just wanted to make it clear
to
anyone who might have misunderstood that I am not trying to tell anyone how
to spend their money.
"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth,
and
I am a citizen of the world." Eugene V. Debs
The Militant:
http://www.themilitant.com
Pathfinder Press:
http://www.pathfinderpress.com
Granma International:
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
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Kim, I think you make people happy by choosing books that make you happy. I
know Roger's desire is to be helpful and let you know about the wish list.
What
he says makes sense. I think our community is so large and diverse that
there are bound to be many members who like the things you put into the
collection.
Yes, we have a large and active wish list. That doesn't mean you
necessarily want to read or pay for what someone else is wishing for. By
purchasing
books
you want to read, you are actively taking steps to fill your own wish list
requests. You're not adding books to the ever-expanding wish list; you're
taking
a tangible step toward getting them into the collection. So the net result
seems to be the same. (smile)
I think my email may sound somewhat stern. I don't intend that and think I
should explain why I'm saying these things. The nature of our wish list is
that
there are some people who have requested over 100 books at a time while
being unwilling to help get them into the collection, whether through
volunteering
to proofread or by providing the books to be scanned. I'm not referring to
people who physically can't volunteer or to people who request books and who
help with the proofreading. In theory, I do want those hundreds of books to
be added to Bookshare, no matter who requested them, because I want
everyone
to be able to access any book they wish. Still the reality is that the
burden of buying, locating, and/or scanning these books falls on our shoulders.
This also means that if we spend our time and money on these books, we
can't spend our time and money working on books that are important to us. So I
feel
frustrated when someone says that a volunteer should spend money working on
the wish list books instead of buying her own to make people happy.
When I get books from Amazon or Paperback Swap, I tend to get 2 books for
me and 1 book from the Bookshare wish list. Even then, I primarily use my
credits
on books I'm willing to read so I can prepare my scan well. I'll take books
somewhat outside my interests if the request is clearly for a student or an
adult needing a book for their employment.
I used to try to be totally fair, doing a book for me and then a book for
someone else, whether I liked it or not. I've taken on books in the past that
didn't interest me at all, and I found that proofreading them was rather
like pulling out my eyelashes strand by strand. I felt drained and burned out
pretty quickly. Now I focus on what I do well and trust that others with
interests in other areas will do likewise. Sue and Jill taught me to do this,
and I am so grateful that they taught me how to keep from overwhelming
myself.
Monica Willyard
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker
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