[bksvol-discuss] Re: unsatisfactory synopses
- From: "Lisa Leonardi" <lml5280@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 23:47:24 -0500
Speaking of Bertrice Small, if any of you scanners out there have access
to any of her books that are not in the bookshare collection, would you mind
submitting some? I love her novels but there are only six within the
collection (and I read those off in just over a week, smile). If anyone can
submit them, I'd really appreciate. (So much, in fact, I'd validate all of
them.)
Lisa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 11:32 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: unsatisfactory synopses
> Natalie, the validator absolutely should *not* have
> taken out your synopsis and put in only romance. Much
> more is needed. There is so much variety to romance
> novels -- are they historical romances or modern? Is
> there sex, either explicit and raw (which I don't care
> for) or delicately and erotically written, like
> Bertrice Small's,which I love? Is the romance the main
> part of the plot or very tangential, as in A Woman
> Betrayed, which I don't consider to be primarily a
> romance but apparently the scanner did.
>
> Keep putting them in, and hopefully your scanned books
> will be validated by someone who's more careful. I'm
> about to validate a book that already has excellent
> synopses and I don't have to worry about that part of
> it.
>
> Cindy
>
> -- Lemina <lemina007@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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