[bookshare-discuss] Re: Download list books
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 13:51:13 -0700 (PDT)
Thank, Merrill. I'll try that next time.
Cindy
--- Merrill Louise <STARBASEWILDGOOSE@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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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