[bksvol-discuss] Re: fair books and "BSO"
- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:06:09 -0400
Then, it looks as if this has been a misunderstanding. I never saw your
message and I sent mine out at least three times. I think that's more than
considerate of me for BookShare. Since we've had all this traffic about the
mischaracterization of some ratings, I thought I should ask before sending a
book and that's what I did. To be clear, I scan my books either as favors,
because of a local bookclub, or because I have an interest. I can't think of a
good reason to put those off until I get a subscription which may never happen.
Hope this helps.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sarah Van Oosterwijck
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 12:02 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: fair books and "BSO"
Wouldn't it make more sense to scan some stuff that isn't on bookshare and
wait until you get a subscription to read what already is in the
collection? The whole idea of bookshare is to not duplicate scanning
effort. It isn't vary nice to waste the time of validators who must check
duplicates to see if they are better quality than what is in the
collection. They don't even get credit for that task when the duplicate is
not any better than the one in the collection. It's fine to submit
something again when you know the current copy is not satisfactory, but
otherwise please don't. Also remember those numbers we were given about
the cost of processing each book. We don't want to process any one title
more times than necessary.
Maybe you didn't believe me because it was to my benefit to say so, but I
have already written to this list to tell you that Mrs. Pollifax Innocent
Tourist was a book I scanned and I edit obsessively before submitting. If
the book is damaged I would like someone to let me know, but still it would
be unlikely that it could be improved very much because the conversion
process would have to be the culprit if there were more than a few errors
in it.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
Assistive Technology Trainer
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:59 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: fair books and "BSO"
I have several books that I'm going to scan for myself. Some are already
on BookShare. How can I tell what condition they're in or should I just
put up what I've done and let someone else worry about that?
To start with, for example, I've got Mrs. Polifax, Innocent Tourist and
Slander by Ann Coulter. I'm on page 80 of Slander.
Thanks.
Original Message -----
From: Rui
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:37 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] fair books and "BSO"
Hello:
This is a repost of a message i wrote on June 30 in reference to the
"BSO" flag.
Good morning everyone:
A new copy of the Fair book list has been generated.
It can be found on BookshareScans.
Now, in order to keep things sane for Mr. Galindo, we need to follow a
couple of rules.
Otherwise he'll go crazy, resign from Bookshare and take a 7 dollar an
hour
job guiding drunk tourists to the nearest legal brothel near Los Vegas.
Rule #1, If you are going to do some editing of the original scan, when
you
upload the book, please change the title to
BSO <title> e.g BSO The Catcher in the Rye
This will be a flag to Mr. Galindo that this is an intensional resubmit
of a
book already on bookshare.
It will be up to Mr. Galindo to remove the BSO before he approves the
title,
otherwise he shall receive a flogging and be read the complete and
unabridged works of Aloysius Q. Schmaltzenstein
Gavronsky
Rule #2, If you download a fair book and realize that a complete rescan
would serve the Bookshare community better then an attempted edit of the
original, you are to request Mr. Galindo to place that book on the step 1
page in order for you to download the title and have it to your credit.
By following these rules you will make me and Mr. Gallindo much happier
and truly be worthy of the title "gentle people."
If you have questions, please e-mail me "off-list."
goldWave@xxxxxxx
--
Rui
BookshareScans
http://members.cox.net/booksharescans
----- Original Message -----
From: Gerald Hovas
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Gustavo.G@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 5:00 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: plan to scan
Jill,
BSO stands for Book Share Org or Bookshare.Org. Some people have said
that you should put BSO in front of books which need special attention,
like replacements for books which are not rated Excellent.
Since I Haven't heard any of the staff say to do that, I asked Gustavo
if that is the way he likes to handle those types of books back in July,
but he never answered my message.
Gerald
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jill O'Connell
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 3:30 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] plan to scan
From the fair book list I plan to scan East of the Mountains by David
Guterson. Also can someone tell me what BSO in front of some books stands
for?
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