Hi Evan,
I have noticed what Rick has noticed in my BRF files. Even though page
numbers aren't given, if I type a number in the find box, I am taken
farther into the book. I can't say if it is actually the page I would
be on if I had a hard copy of the book, but I do not get the message
"not found". Rather, I am taken to another place in the book.
Sue S.
-----Original Message----- From: Evan Reese
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 2:00 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: levels of navigation .... in new books
in Bookshare
Hi Rick,
No, volunteers do not proofread the PQ books. So if they don't have the
right markup, then they don't get fixed up before they get into the
collection. Interesting that you should mention that page navigation
works
in these books. My experience with reading the brf versions of PQ
books is
that most of them don't have page numbers in them.
Evan
-----Original Message----- From: ohio1803@xxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 12:54 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: levels of navigation .... in new books in
Bookshare
Okay.
Suggestion that I make a Book Quality report.
I did, I think, make this comment, in a way to bring out that point.
That many books are not having the needed headings to use Daisy
navigation.
And as was stated, there are very very many books coming into the
collection
from Publisher Quality, or PQ, I guess we call it.
So with hundreds and thousands of books coming in this way, those are
much
too numerous expect the Bookshare members to file those reports.
My hope is that somehow much fewer of those books will get into the
collection without better Daisy navigation.
It may or may not be a volunteer issue at all, I really don't know.
Do the volunteers actually do this Proofreading process for all of these?
I just raised the point as a member who has experienced this a good
number
of times on some books I have downloaded, and found that I would go to
advance to the next section, only to hear, "End of book." Left arrow,
and
it goes back to the beginning. Change my navigation level to page,
and I am
good.
I am one of those who really enjoys reading Bookshare books, because I
actually like the experience, and increased power of my ease of reading,
because I can go to different places in the book. I am old enough to
remember how it was to listen to the squirrels barking as the cassette
would
rewind as I would try to find a pasasge or section of a book. Or before
that, would drop the needle on the old discs of the NLS player to find a
place.
There are lots of books I have downloaded, both staff submitted and
volunteer submitted that do have really nice navigation. So I just
wanted to
bring it up if there is a way to see how it will navigate before it
gets put
up in the collection. Front end adjustments, rather than hindsight
fixes.
Hope that makes sense.
Happy reading, happy proofreading, everyone! (smile)
Rik
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