[bksvol-discuss] Re: indices et al
- From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:41:17 -0400
You included those notes within the submitted book itself?
At 08:36 PM 8/7/2006, you wrote:
The books I've validated that have had indices and
footnotes at the back, I've just left. Usually they're
readable, even if not in vertical lines. I have
included notes that if they're a problem for any
reader and that person wants me to fix them for me to
contact me and I will fix them, but so far no one has.
I wonder if anyone has even read any of those books.
smile
Cindy
--- Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorry, but to me, that is way too much omission.
> Table of contents? Not
> putting that in is inconceivable to me. I can
> understand the index being
> left out, although the last two books I scanned had
> indexes, and I took the
> trouble to fix the first one up, and I will soon be
> fixing up the other, but
> contents, foreword, preface, etc. may not be
> technically core content, but
> they aren't even usually that long.
>
> I want to try to nip this kind of thinking in the
> bud if I can, because the
> last thing I want to see on Bookshare is books
> turning up without contents,
> and other preliminary material, but especially
> without contents. I hope, as
> already stated with the possible exception of the
> index, that we aren't
> going to start seeing stripped-down versions of
> books here. I know that
> this may take extra time for some people who want to
> be conscientious and
> turn in a quality addition to the collection. This
> is especially true if a
> book has a lot of endnotes or reference notes. A
> recent book I scanned had
> a couple hundred of them. That's one of the things
> that sometimes
> disappoints me about some books that NLS puts out.
> When I hear something
> like 'The forty pages of reference notes in the
> print edition have been
> omitted in this recording.', I feel cheated. Call
> me a nerd if you want to,
> but I actually read those things. That's a good
> source of future reading
> material for me, and I want to keep it in Bookshare
> books.
>
> But the main impetus to writing this was the idea
> put forth here that a
> table of contents could be omitted because it is not
> core content. I hope
> Gustavo steps on this one hard.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 4:15 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: I think I know the
> answer to this...
>
>
> > You would let a book in if it were missing its
> preface, introduction and
> > endnotes but contained the text and the
> appropriate title page copyright
> > info? Interesting.
> >
> > E.
> >
> >
> > At 11:39 PM 8/6/2006, you wrote:
> >
> >>Hi Lea,
> >>
> >>This may be surprising, but since the end notes
> and indices are not 'core
> >>content', you can submit the book as is. I have
> dropped appendices or
> >>indices a few times, when they were hopelessly
> muddled. I would suggest
> >>writing a note to Gustavo in the comment section
> when you upload the book
> >>about the missing 30 pages, since he may overrule
> me.
> >>
> >>This of course begs the question: what exactly is
> the 'core content' of a
> >>book? I believe it's the center core of the book,
> not the table of
> >>contents, the foreword, the introduction, the
> afterword, glossary,
> >>appendices, indices, etc, etc, etc. Bookshare
> requires the title and
> >>copyright pages and the core content, but I
> believe that's all. As I said
> >>though, Gustavo may have a different opinion, so
> if you want to make
> >>absolutely sure, you could write him, using the
> email address in the To
> >>section of this email.
> >>
> >>HTH, Carrie
> >>
> >>Pascha Lea <pascha2u@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I've started validating a text book, and I've just
> noticed that all of the
> >>end-notes and indexes aren't scanned. I have the
> hard-copy of the book, so
> >>I know there about 30 pages of this stuff missing.
> As I don't have access
> >>to a scanner, my first reaction would be to reject
> this as an incomplete
> >>book. My question is - would not having the
> end-notes and indexes make
> >>this book 'incomplete'?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Lea
> >>
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