[bksvol-discuss] Re: where are priorities are
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:47:55 -0800 (PST)
Point taken. But it only takes a few minutes to write
a review, and sometimes one feels strongly about a
book and wants to share one's positive feelings to
encourage and hope that others will read the book. The
few minutes it takes, at least for me, since I keep
thinking about it before I write it, i.e. write it in
my mind, does not take away from my validating.
Indeed, reading and responding to e-mails takes much
more time, and I keep thinking I should not, but I
can't resist. Even reading somewhat technical stuff
about machines people use I find educational and
informative.
Cindy
> As a blind subscriber to bookshare I personally
> prefer volunteers work on
> validating and submitting and not on book reviews
> given the staff shortages
> bookshare experiences and the bottlenecks for
> approval which might occur if
> bookshare staff is asked to take on submitting the
> reviews we send in. It
> is difficult enough to add to the collection. I
> particularly ask sighted
> volunteers to use their talents where they can do
> the most good helping
> make new submits and validates possible rather than
> writing reviews. You,
> after all, can go to a library and read as many
> books as you
> like. Bookshare was created to give us those
> choices.
>
> E.
> At 04:30 PM 1/10/2007, you wrote:
> >Hi, Jamie.
> >
> >Hmm, that's strange. I validated that book over
> the weekend and I didn't
> >see any of the extraneous characters. I use speech
> only, but I read line
> >by line and have JAWS set to say all punctuation,
> so I would have noticed
> >karats and things like that.
> >
> >unfortunately, people validating using speech alone
> can miss some of the
> >hard paragraph markers if they are at the end of a
> line and do not use
> >some of the tips Jake provided. However, if a hard
> paragraph marker is in
> >the middle of the sentence, this would cause my
> synthesizer to read
> >differently, so I would have noticed at least a few
> of these. I could
> >tell by the speed and cadence of JAWS that this
> wasn't the case, plus I
> >was able to navigate by paragraph without having
> sentences cut off.
> >
> >I believe I have the original zip file around here,
> I'll check and see
> >what's going on. I'm kind of surprised, because
> I've validated probably
> >close to a dozen of the submitter's books and he
> does an excellent job
> >cleaning up his scans.
> >
> >Lisa
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamie Yates"
> <jamieyates@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: "Bookshare Volunteers"
> <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:19 PM
> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Like Death - Tim Waggoner
> >
> >
> >>My friend says that in the braille copy of Like
> Death
> >>there are lots of instances of words that are
> >>contractions like I'll and he'd and he's printed
> like
> >>this:
> >>
> >>I^p
> >>'
> >>^p
> >>ll
> >>
> >>instead of I'll
> >>
> >>or
> >>
> >>he^p
> >>'
> >>^p
> >>d
> >>
> >>and other hard paragraph markers in the middle of
> >>sentences and paragraphs.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Jamie in Michigan
> >>
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