[bookshare-discuss] Re: A small comment
- From: "Julie Morales" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:09:23 -0500
Hi, Natalie. You really don't have to Google it if it doesn't appear in the
book itself, but if it does, including it definitely will help. Granted, I've
submitted a few where I forgot to include that info, my last submission of THE
COWBOY'S SECRET SON being one of them. <smile> If anyone on here has that book,
the series is the Trueblood Texas series, if anyone wants to add that, but
that's in the book and on the title page to boot, so it shouldn't be hard to
find. <smile> Take care.
Julie Morales
Children are fragile. Handle with prayer. --Unknown
----- Original Message -----
From: Natalie
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 4:00 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: A small comment
Hello all,
Thanks for all your answers. Can I also just say you've convinced me? I admit
when I first started submitting to Bookshare, I was putting the bare amount of
info. The required information and the synopses. Since then I've started taking
a little more time to include the ISBN numbers and info whether that a book is
a sequel to another book. Now I think I'll try to add the series line too.
What's another 5 minutes to google it, right?
Wishing you all a happy holiday,
Natalie
----- Original Message -----
From: boomerdad
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 9:47 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: A small comment
Well, as a collector of books in several series, I find it irritating that
many books *don't* have their series identifier in the title. I collect, among
other things, the Executioner series, and there are about fifty (yes, fifty)
books in the series on Bookshare which *don't* have any indication that they're
Executioner books unless you think to read the synopsis, and even then it's not
always there. For those using an imbedded search tool, like Openbook's,
there's no way to read the synopsis until the book is downloaded. Luckily, all
the Executioner boks have the name Don Pendleton attached to them, so I was
able to search for books by Don Pendleton ... but I had to go to an Executioner
website that lists all the books to figure out which numbers of the series I'd
downloaded. If the person who uploaded/validated them had just thought to put
"(Executioner #xxx)" next to the title, it could've saved me about four hours'
work.
Aside from numbers, if someone is looking for Star Trek books but doesn't
necesarily know all the Trek titles, it's nice to be able to put Star Trek in a
search string and find all the Trek books.
Them's my two cents.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Natalie
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 1:36 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] A small comment
Hello to everyone on this list,
First of all, happy holidays, merry Christmas, mele kalikimaka, and so on
and so forth.
I don't normally post to the list, but right at the moment I have
something I just wanted to comment on, and I really, really, really, think I'll
burst if I don't say it publicly.
Backgroun info: All of the books I donate to Bookshare are all romances.
Harlequin, Silhouette and Zebra mainly.
Okay, so here goes--- why do validaters find it necessary to put what
series the book came from in the title? Just in case I'm confusing some of you,
if I submit a book that's a Silhouette Special Edition, they themselves go and
add in the title field, such and such book name, open parenthesis, Silhouette
Special Edition, number 000, close parenthesis.
Please note that I'm not trying to offend anyone by mentioning this. But
for some reason this really bugs me and I'd really like to understand it.
Personally, I find it distracting when I'm searching through the list of
books and have to read that along with everything else. Of course, this is just
my personal opinion. So I would like to know some other opinions. Is this info
vitally important that they have to put it in the title field, rather than
perhaps tack it on at the end of the long synopsis?
Again, no offense to anyone who does this with romances or other books.
I'm just trying to figure this out.
Aloha,
Natalie
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