[bksvol-discuss] Re: a discovery
- From: Barbara B <scootergirlred@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 13:56:37 -0700 (PDT)
I am a student and I like when ebooks have page numbers.
Barbara
--- On Thu, 9/8/11, Mike <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Mike <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: a discovery
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, September 8, 2011, 8:55 PM
And as a sighted person, I'm not entirely happy that ebooks don't have page
numbers either. Sure, it is nice to be able to change the font to make the
ebook more readable for me and that means there will be different amounts of
text on one "screen" for different readers and thus different numbers of
screens for that particular book. But how do you tell someone else where a
particular quote is? Oh in the middle of chapter 3 or near the end of chapter
4. Or as happened to me many times a key sticks and zooms forward much more
than you intended, how do you get back to you were? I recently heard that
because of Kindles being used in schools, some of Amazon's ebooks will have
"real page numbers" some time soon. I'd suspect this will be mostly textbooks,
though, not general fiction. Ah well, technology giveth and technology taketh
away.
Misha
On 9/8/2011 8:40 AM, Melissa Smith wrote:
> 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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