Yes, I realize that. I was talking about users, not vallidators. As a
vallidator, I read most things I download, but sometimes I skim, checking
only text quality and to see everything is there. You can't summarize well
when you do that. I think you may have misunderstood what I was saying--I
meant Bookshare users who just download a book to read being able to
suggest a synopsis.
At 05:20 PM 10/2/2004 -0700, you wrote:
Shayla,
My understanding is that as a validator you can write synopses in the synopses spaces before uploading. If after reading and validating the book you think the scanner didn't put a valid or complete synopsis you can delete his/hers and write your own. If the synopsis space is blank you can write one.
To check to see if this is true, maybe you could download A Woman Betrayed. If there are short and long synopses there, they are the ones I as validator wrote, because the scanner only wrote, in the short synopsis field, "A romance by a known writer" (or something like that) and nothing in the long synopsis field.
Cindy
- Shayla <shayla@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I haven't read the entirety of the synopsis thread, > so apologies if this > has been suggested before. > > Would it be possible to set up a specific > bookshare.org email address to > which readers could send in synopses? That is, say a > reader downloads a > book that has no synopsis, or a very generic one. > The user reads the book, > and can then synopsize the book much better. Do the > admins have the ability > to change a synopsis once a book is on site? > > I can see something like this getting really out of > hand with people > changing synopses all over the place, but perhaps if > there were general > rules--you can only suggest a summary if there is > none or it gives almost > no information, etc. A system of this sort has > worked before for online, > nonpublished fiction archives I've seen, though they > were mostly on a much > smaller scale. > > Doable? Not? > Shayla > > Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; > Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the > brave. > I know. But I do not approve. > And I am not resigned. > > -- 'Dirge Without Music', Edna St. Vincent Millay > > Ring the bells that still can ring, > forget your perfect offering, > there is a crack in everything, > that's how the light gets in. > --Leonard Cohen > > >
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Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
-- 'Dirge Without Music', Edna St. Vincent Millay
