Hi, Dave. I remember that problem, but I think it only applied to changes
validators made to the synopsis, and not the synopses put in by the original
submitter, which was the case with Natalie, so I don't know if that would
have applied here. Take care.
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From: <talmage@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 6:04 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: unsatisfactory synopses
Hi Natalie,
Depending when in the past you submitted the book in question, there was a
problem with the retention of synopsis at the Bookshare end. It was a bug
in the system, and I believe the techies at Bookshare have since eradicated
that one.
HTH
Dave
At 11:13 PM 10/1/2004, you wrote:
>Hi to all,
>
>I finally got back on the list. I think I was lot for a bit.
>
>Anyway, I saw these posts about unsatisfactory synopsis's and I just had to
>post a comment. Since, as I said, I haven't been receveing all the other
>mails from a while back to up until a few days ago, I dont' know if this
>subject was brought up and discussed, nd closed. I know it was brought up
>once before, but I wanted to put my own two cents in it.
>
>A while back I submitted several books in the romance category. Now, when I
>submit a scanned book, I always, always put in the long synopsis box the
>exact stuff that comes from the back of the book. And from there I put a
>edited version of the long synopsis in the short synopsis box.
>So, a while back I got an e-mail saying that one of my submitted books was
>validated and accepted into the collection. I was like, yay!
>Then, a little while after that, I was searching through the romance
>category, looking for books to read, when I came across that book I
>submitted. And whoever validated my book totally deleted my short and long
>synopsis and just put "romance." I cannot tell you how confused and
>mystified I was by this. I don't know about the rest of you, but I enjoy
>reading the short and long synopsis's that people put on their submitted
>books. I don't go by author or title, but what the book is about. I like to
>know before I read the book a bit about what the storyline is. So, going by
>my own preference, I'm confused as to why someone would delete what the
>book
>was about and just put the word romance.
>
>And that's something I've noticed a lot about the romance category. Don't
>know about other categories, but in the romance category, if you scroll
>through the books, a lot of books just say, "romance" or "romance by best
>selling author." I'm just trying to better understand why this is done. Is
>it a lack of time by the volunteeer to find a synopsis or scan the back of
>the book? Or is it a preference, perhaps?
>
>If anyone can answer my questions to help me better understand, I would
>appreciate it. :)
>
>Natalie
