Hi, Jake. I will be in the same position as Shelley is in sooner rather than later, as I'm also getting into the field of teaching, so I tend to agree with everyone else on this issue. This is the only major problem I have with the service. I love all the books I have access to. I love the idea of everyone working together for a common cause and getting books up there that we otherwise wouldn't have access to, but if Bookshare really does want to be a service students/professionals can use effectively, something will have to be done. In a lot of ways, Bookshare is really only good for pleasure reading, and maybe research papers if you don't have to site your sources, but once you hit college, that's a given necessity every time. Take care. Julie Morales inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Windows/MSN Messenger (but not email): mercy0421@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: mercy0421 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:14 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: page numbers and student contest I totally agree. I find that some titles I download have page numbers still in tact, but the number that don't is surprising. I have been a member since July of last year and have grown to enjoy reading the lists and working my way through books to submit. I'd have to say the one thing that has made me the most annoyed is the header stripper. I'd rather have the page numbers in tact and listen to the headers than have nothing. I'm not sure why this issue isn't being addressed by staff on the list. Perhaps they are looking at it in house, but I'm assuming they aren't because they've not made an effort to mention it here. If BookShare staff are convinced that the majority of users don't want page numbers/headers (I'm inclined to think the opposite) then please move the stripper tool into the unpack utility. Let the user choose whether or not he/she wants to remove that information. Then everybody is happy. Now yes that takes somebody's time to add the necessary code to the utility and would require a new download of the tool by users wishing to utilize the new feature but in the long run I see it as being useful. Bookshare could become an even better place and appeal more and more to the students if the time was taken to address this matter. I'm really going to hate it if/when I'm put in a position similar to Shelly's. Now I'm going to get off of my soap box folks, just thought I'd way in on the thing I consider to be the least best factor about bookshare. I say least best because I think the system is great otherwise <grin> jake ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Quinn" <quinns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:51 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: page numbers and student contest > The print page numbers are eliminated because for whatever reason, the > bookshare staff is reluctant to let go of the header stripper. I agree > that in view of the fact that most of us have expressed our > frustration with the results, someone should attend to the matter. > > Pam > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.6 - Release Date: 3/30/2005 > >