[bksvol-discuss] Re: books found on other services
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:01:12 -0800
The two books were by Olaf Stapledon, a British science fiction writer who
had a great influence on Arthur C. Clarke and Greg Bear among others. His
most well-known works were published in the 1930's. He is one of the few
authors whose name has become an adjective. Whenever a reviewer says that a
work is "Stapledonian", many SF readers will immediately know that that
means it is grand in scope and probably takes place in the far future and
involves characters - posthumans - people very different from the ones
around now. Some consider his writing to be rather dry, but few would
disagree that it is extremely imaginative.
The one that is available from NLS is Star Maker and the other book was Odd
John and Sirius - two separate novels, but published together in the edition
RFB&D had recorded. They did a pretty good job with both of those
recordings, too. It is sad to know that probably noone will hear them again.
I wish I had thought to check on them and order the tapes before it was too
late.
NLS also has Last and First Men and Last Men in London, two other books
published in one volume. I wonder if those, and their version of Star Maker,
will also be orphaned when they stop sending out cassettes.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Petraccaro
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Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 9:17 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books found on other services
Which two?
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: Evan Reese
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Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 10:32 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books found on other services
There is also another issue: Whenever NLS changes its formats, many
books
are left behind - never to be accessible again. This happened when they
stopped sending out records and it will happen again when they stop
lending
cassettes. The same thing happened with RFB&D books on cassette. I
picked up
a few that were on cassette that are not yet on CD, but I missed some
too -
probably some that I haven't thought of yet. Just last Thursday, I was
saddened to discover that I couldn't find two books I like very much
that
they recorded years ago on tape that are now no longer available because
they are not on CD. NLS has one of them on tape, but the other is not
accessible anywhere at this time. I hope to fix that early next year by
submitting it to Bookshare.
With Bookshare books, I would expect that whatever new file formats are
created and adopted, there will likely always be devices that can read
brf
files and devices that will read old versions of Daisy files. Or even if
that is not the case, the rtf files that Bookshare has of all submitted
books can be reprocessed into any new format that comes along. In short,
no
more orphaned books; or it is to be hoped, anyway.
Evan
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From: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 3:46 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books found on other services
> Plus, on bookshare, yu can get the books immediately--no calling your
> regional library and waiting for the book to arrive.
>
> Cat Lover Lori
>
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> From: <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 12:33 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books found on other services
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>
>> Hi,
>> I favor having books on Bookshare even if they are duplicates. One
>> example
>> of why is that although a site like National Braille Press has them,
they
>> are in grade two braille. That leaves out some people. NLS may only
have
>> it
>> on tape. That leaves out some people. Bookshare offers books in both
>> DAISY
>> and brf formats. That includes everyone as far as I can tell. I wish
we
>> would stop pointing people to other sites to be honest. Instead, I
feel
>> we
>> should get those books and put them on Bookshare. I wish they would
join
>> us
>> and help us. That would centralize everything.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> James D Homme, , Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc.,
>> james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810
>>
>> "Never doubt that a thoughtful group of committed citizens can change
the
>> world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Dan Beaver"
>> <dbeaver888@gmail
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was thinking about some of the requests for books that are found
free
>> on
>> other services sites. For example, Louisa May Alcot's books. Mnay
of
>> hers
>>
>> are free on Project Gutenberg.
>>
>> We already have links on Bookshare that simply point to other
services
>> sites
>> for books. Why can't we do something similar in this case? We have
>> links
>> that point to N BP for some books found exclusively over there.
>>
>> Just a brain storm.
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