[bksvol-discuss] Re: sci-fi validators
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:45:08 -0400
Dear Carrie and Clare,
! You could have rolled your eyes and said, "We're up to our eyebrows in books
to scan. We can't take another book right now, but you didn't! Thanks to both
of you
A Bookstore across the street? How can you stand it???
I'm a fan of several genres of books including sf and noticed right away how
much that group needed BSOing. There are lots of accurate files in that group
to read while the BSOs trickle in. Night Train to Rigel, by Timothy Zahn, which
Kelley validated was a fun read. I hope you'll tell the staff at the Bookstore
across the street that the Booksharians from coast to coast are agog over their
donation!
All of that science fiction coming at us. Where's Hermione's time turner when I
need it? I want to jump up and down yelling "I'll do them! I'll do them!," but
I have a clutch of 5 treasures to validate. I have faith in the volunteers as a
whole so this is me jumping up and down yelling, "We'll do them! We'll do them!"
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: Carrie Karnos
To: Bookshare Vol Group
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 5:16 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] sci-fi validators
Hi all,
Last week, the used bookstore across the street called us and said that they
had loads of sci-fi books in their free box. The books are old and smelly and
no one will buy them. Would we like them? You bet! Claire and I zipped over
and grabbed a slew of books, and brought them back to the office. There are 20
BSO sci-fi books and 47 new sci-fi books for the collection. I have 38 BSO
sci-fi books from my father's collection, so at this point we now have 58 BSO
sci-fi books, 47 new sci-fi books, and 38 classical music books that we're
trying to process. Whew! Of course now the scanner has been making strange
noises, so it needs to go in for maintenance. I'm hoping we can have it in and
out of a local shop within a few days. We'll see how that goes.
I want to submit the BSO sci-fi books before the new sci-fi books, hoping
that the validators will work on them. I'm afraid if I submit the new ones
first, the BSO ones will be ignored. The sci-fi collection is in pretty bad
shape, mainly because the first library of books to start the collection was
mostly sci-fi. Way back when, people were anxious to start the collection, so
they scanned the books and plopped them into the collection without any
validation. I think about half of the fair books are sci-fi now. I'm trying
to upgrade the sci-fi so we have excellent scans of most books. I managed to
sneak a few BSO sci-fi books through the scanner this morning before the noise
got really loud. I'll try to submit them later this week. Please validate
them. After the rest of the BSO ones are submitted, we'll start on the new
ones. Of course the classical music ones will be sprinkled in there too.
And that's the status from the office, Carrie
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