[bksvol-discuss] Re: duplicate books on bookshare
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:22:53 -0500
Hi E,
Good to hear from you. I will certainly pass along the gist of your message,
although I think Roger has already done something similar. I need to reread
his message to be sure though, and a second similar message along the same
lines from me would not hurt in any case.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 11:16 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] duplicate books on bookshare
Hello Evan,
This is Elizabeth, who volunteered a as a proofreader/validator with
bookshare many moons ago.
You may remember that I have been barred from scanning and submitting
books or from volunteering to proofread books. However, I am still a loyal
borrower of bookshare books.
I also file quality reports with bookshare every time I run across a title
which is entered twice into the bookshare collection.
There are many many such duplicate titles. Please encourage others to file
similar quality reports.
I read your message on the Volunteer List about running across two copies
of a publisher-submitted book.
What I am running across seems to be that same sort of thing.
So, since I am not allowed to communicate on either bookshare list, I do
ask you to pass along this message, minus my email address or name. Please
just put the gist of what I say into a message asking others to check for
duplicates and submit quality reports when you folks find them. Bookshare
then sends out a note saying one of the copies has been removed.
Thanks much.
Former Volunteer,
E.
Elizabeth
At 06:56 PM 2/20/2012, you wrote:
Today I had an odd experience on Bookshare. I downloaded a book called
This Will Make You Smarter edited by John Brockman. I went to Amazon first
to read a bit about it before deciding to check Bookshare. It said there
that the book was published last Tuesday. So I went to Bookshare and found
a PQ copy of the book. I looked it up under the editor's name, and when I
found the title I looked no further. Interestingly, the date of addition
was December 12, 2011. I was impressed. It seemed that HarperCollins was
giving Bookshare their books even before they were officially published.
Well, that turned out not to be quite the case. After downloading and
unzipping the brf copy of the book, I found that it' was only 22.1Kb in
size. The table of contents had only a couple of the essays in it, and
only what was in the table of contents was in that copy. So I went back up
to Bookshare and entered the title into Advanced search. It was then that
I found two copies of the book, the severely truncated one I had gotten
originally, and the full edition, 545Kb in size for the brf version, that
was added on the same date it was officially published, February 14.
I don't know how many other instances of this kind of thing there might
be, but I thought I should mention it here. Don't stop when you find the
first occurrence of a book title you're looking for, and if there is more
than one instance, get the one with the most recent date of addition.
Evan
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