[bksvol-discuss] a discovery
- From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:38:35 -0400
Morning all,
I made an interesting discovery last night. I downloaded a book from
Bookshare, Down By The River by Robyn Carr. No, don't laugh, I do read
romances when the fit takes me. OK, so because I'm thoroughly
disgusted with the Samantha and Tom voices on the Stream, I proceeded
to put the book through Kurzie, so I could at least have a synthetic
voice that was listenable. So, I plunked this book into Kurzie, and I
told it to make mp3 files of every fifty pages. Well, I got a six hour
mp3 file. Apparently this book has no page breaks in it. I was
expecting at least five mp3 files, nice, manageable chunks that would
contain about an hour of playing time, give or take. Folks, if you're
going to make volunteers be conscious of page breaks and make sure that
a book has them before it is submitted to the collection, it is my
opinion that any PQ books should have the same standards to follow.
Now, I don't mind a six-and-a-half hour mp3 file, but if I wanted to
find any pages in this book, I couldn't because there are apparently no
page breaks. What is Bookshare staff doing about this?
Ann P.
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Ann K. Parsons
Portal Tutoring
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