[bksvol-discuss] Re: another PQ question
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 19:30:12 -0700
Hi Charlene,
It's great that you are pointing out errors that you find in PQ books. It
is much appreciated. Let me try to address the issues that you bring up,
and maybe put to rest some of your worries, at least a little.
First, the agreement with publishers states that in order for them to agree
to give us their books, they want only their copies in the collection. So,
unless Bookshare wants to be ungrateful to the gift of the publishers, the
copies they give us must be the only copies in the collection. That's how
it stands right now. It seems a shame to look a gift horse in the mouth
when the majority of publisher quality books really are of excellent
quality.
The PQ books go through a conversion process in order to have daisy and brf
formats available to Bookshare members. Obviously, that conversion process
isn't always perfect. Your telling staff when there are errors and the
nature of the errors is helpful so that the tools that do conversion from
the publisher's format to Bookshare's formats can be tweeked to do a better
job. Thank you for letting staff know when and what kinds of problems you
find. It is important to staff to have truly excellent copies of books.
It isn't a perfect situation, we all know. But efforts are being made to
improve all the time.
Please keep telling us what you uncover when reading Bookshare's books. It
does matter, and we do care, and we do listen!
Mayrie
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charlene Ota
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 6:55 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: another PQ question
I'm really curious about this issue, too. Why would bookshare throw out the
volunteer copy if it is better than the PQ copy. There's a cookbook in the
collection that is a PQ book that I have already pointed out errors in. A
staff member fixed the errors on the pages I listed but left the rest of
them. There are lots of junk characters like tildes between words instead of
spaces. Fractions are missing from the ingredient lists.
I wrote to the staff member that I was dealing with about this book and
expressed my frustration with the fact that bookshare will put a book like
this in the collection, erros and all, but asks us as volunteers to fix all
of our books. Now, don't get me wrong, I think we as volunteers have a lot
to be proud of in the quality of the books that we put in the collection and
I wouldn't have it any other way than to fix everything that I can to make
the book as useful as I can. However, to me using the PQ books that are less
than the quality of the books produced by volunteers is crazy! Also, why is
the standard for PQ books less than the standard for volunteer produced
books? That particular cookbook isn't useful as it is with the erros in the
fractions for the ingredients. It wouldn't be acceptable if I as a volunteer
and a proofreader left that book like that. It seems like kind of a slap in
the face to the volunteers to settle for poor quality for the PQ books.
Well, my appologies. I kept trying to hold back on my rant, but the subject
kept coming up and I finally had to throw in my half a cent! (smile!)
Charlene
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charisma
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 1:38 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: another PQ question
So do PQ books HAVE to replace the volunteer copies in the Bookshare library
or can Bookshare keep both?
I guess it is a matter of copyright laws? Or space?
Charisma
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