[bookshare-discuss] Re: Download list books
- From: "Merrill Louise" <STARBASEWILDGOOSE@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 16:22:00 -0400
Hi Cindy, does your browser allow you open a new window? If so, you can
click on a book, read the synopsis or the categories, and then close the
window and be returned to the list. I find this very helpful because it does
indeed take time to reload the download page.
Merrill Louise, Pastor
The Judson Fellowship
Jamestown, New York
cell/office 716.969.2840
"With all my heart I praise the Lord, and I am glad because of God my
Savior. (Luke 1:46-47)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 4:17 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Download list books
> Good suggestions, Mike -- and one more -- I'm willing
> to take books that are only Fair or Good, if I think
> I'd enjoy the book and if I can get hold of the book.
> But the only way to find out, or to find out what the
> book is about, or even the genre, is to click on the
> title; then, if I don't want that particular book, or
> I want to see another, I have to go back to the whole
> list, and it takes a while to load, It would be nice
> if it could be like some e-mail accounts and one could
> just click "Next" or something -- or if the genre
> (even fiction or nonficction -- one can't always tell
> from the title if one isn't familiar with the book or
> its author) and/or rating could be visible along with
> the title -- maybe even just the letters P,F,G E next
> to the title, and M(ystery), R(omance) N(ovel),
> Non(ficton
>
> Cindy
>
>
> --- Mike Pietruk <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Cindy
> >
> > There are some other shortcomings to the Step 1 pool
> > listing which I'd
> > like dealt with at some point.
> >
> > I like ferroting out books that have sat there
> > seemingly forever and
> > obviously overlooked. I have to find them by
> > serendipity. I validated a
> > couple of these from March or April over the
> > weekend. I probably could
> > validate some more of these if I could sort by
> > submission date.
> >
> > Secondly, even though I've done this for only a
> > month or so, I've found
> > submitters that I feel comfortable with and others
> > I'd rather have others
> > work on. It would be nice if one of the sorting
> > fields was submitters
> > name.
> >
> > Finally, there are likely legal issues with this,
> > but it would be nice if
> > there was a utility that could convert those .ark
> > and .kes files from Open
> > Book and K1000 respectively and convert them into
> > either .rtf or .txt.
> > Submitting a book into either one of those formats
> > is a surefire way
> > seemingly to guarantee your submission is likely to
> > be ignored.
> > Perhaps BookShare could come up with an in-house
> > utility on the website
> > that could massage submissions into whatever format
> > the validator
> > preferred giving preference to those in the best
> > interests of preserving
> > integrity of the contents.
> >
> > Sure, there would be drawbacks to this; but, on the
> > other hand, it might
> > get more submissions validated in a timely fashion.
> >
> >
> >
>
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