[bksvol-discuss] Re: our commitment to you: from Jim Fruchterman and Betsy Beaumon

  • From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 04:12:13 -0700

Hi Marilyn,

I don't think you have to learn a new skill.  The new options for volunteers
are geared, I think, to those whose scanning and proofreading preferences
are completely swallowed up by publisher quality books.  Or, for folks who
are afraid their work will be replaced by publisher quality books and don't
like that idea.  I, like you, enjoy what I scan and proofread.  And though
I'll be happy to help out wherever it's necessary, those things are still
what I started volunteering doing, and have always enjoyed, and will
continue to do.  We just need to either be prepared to have the books be
replaced that we scan and/or proofread before publishers who intend to offer
books to Bookshare replace them, or seek out books that interest us but that
won't be replaced, either because they're older books, or books produced by
publishers who don't contribute to Bookshare.

 There's a place here foreveryone.  And all contributions are good
contributions.  I don't think you need to worry.

Mayrie



-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marilyn
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 9:27 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Scott Rains
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: our commitment to you: from Jim Fruchterman
and Betsy Beaumon

Hi, Scott.

Not finding anything resembling my own reaction so far, I have to ask: What
about any scanners and/or any proofreaders who are, as I am, quite thrilled
doing precisely what they're doing now? I'm a new scanner and I scan books
that appeal to me.  I'm a proofreader for under two years and love
proofreading scary murder mysteries and true crime stories. I didn't notice
anything in the new needed options that appealed to me. Do I have to learn a
new skill now?

Respectfully,
Marilyn
mmbeagle@xxxxxxxxx

 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to
bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line.  To get a list of
available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.

 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to
bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line.  To get a list of 
available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.

Other related posts: