[bksvol-discuss] Re: a discovery
- From: Melissa Smith <mdsmith25@xxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:40:09 -0500
Ann,
While I agree that there should be page breaks in PQ books, I understand
why there are not. The reason is that we are getting the files that the
publishers are using for all of their digital books such as Kindle
books. These books have no page breaks for the sighted reader, so wee
are getting the same thing that a sighted person would get if they
bought a digital version of the same book.
Melissa Smith
On 9/8/2011 9:38 AM, Ann Parsons wrote:
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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