Right, that's what I usually do, too, but this whole
discussion started when
Tony mentioned that "New Spring" was available on
web braille. But that
version does not come up in simple search under
'all' formats, even if I put
in the title and author.
Not, as I said before, that I am doubting him. I
have noticed omissions in
the search results before.
Also, the results from other resources do not seem
to be updated very often.
The book "Absolution Gap" by Alastair Reynolds,
which I submitted and was
published on Bookshare back on January 19, is still
not listed up there when
I select 'all' from the locations portion.
"Redemption Ark" is not listed
either, although it was published before that,
although I don't know exactly
when it went up. "Revelation Space" is listed.
----- Original Message -----
From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:59 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: How Many NLS
Members? (was) Re: Bad scan
Wheel of Time 3
>
> Hi Evan,
>
>
> When I do a simple search I put the author's name
in the author field,
> last
> name first, and the whole title in the title
field, and leave the rest of
> the fields blank. That works if I want to see all
of the formats that
> particular book is in.
>
> Hoope that helps,
>
> Sue S.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:31 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: How Many NLS
Members? (was) Re: Bad scan
> Wheel of Time 3
>
>
>> Hi, again, Sue. I forgot to mention that when I
did a search to find out
> if
>> "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' was
available, I just did a
> simple
>> search, no key words, with Harry Potter in the
title field, and 'all' in
> the
>> Material Types field selected. I got 26 records.
I did not read through
>> them all, but links to the Braille versions of
several Harry Potter - or
>> Potter-related - books came up. Geepers, Goblet
of Fire is ten volumes!
> So
>> tell me that NLS's search engine is not flaky.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
>> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 1:12 PM
>> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: How Many NLS
Members? (was) Re: Bad scan
>> Wheel of Time 3
>>
>>
>> >
>> > In the simple search, Evan, I make it better if
I put the author's
>> > name,
>> > then put Web Braille (it says to make it two
words) in the keyword
> field.
>> >
>> > Sue S.
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 1:29 PM
>> > Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: How Many NLS
Members? (was) Re: Bad
> scan
>> > Wheel of Time 3
>> >
>> >
>> >> As I said to Tony, I was using the simple
search and selected 'all' in
>> >> the
>> >> material types field and came up with nothing
in the web Braille
> format.
>> >> Then I selected Braille in the material types
field and still got
>> >> nothing.
>> >> Then I tried with less confidence the
'electronic resource' selection
> and
>> >> got nothing. I still feel that one or more -
at least the 'all'
>> >> selection
>> >> should have brought up the web braille title.
>> >> But that just isn't the way it works. I think
it's bad design, but
> since
>> > I
>> >> didn't design it, nor am I in line to redesign
it, I guess that's the
> way
>> >> I'll have to remember to use it in the future.
It is interesting,
>> >> because
>> > I
>> >> have seen titles - complete with links - for
Braille titles under the
>> > 'all'
>> >> material types selection before, so it seemed
reasonable to me that
>> > Jordan's
>> >> "New Spring" should show up there, but it
didn't.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for the tip.
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 9:25 AM
>> >> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: How Many NLS
Members? (was) Re: Bad
> scan
>> >> Wheel of Time 3
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > It might help to know that you write web
braille in the field called
>> >> > key
>> >> > word. If you only give the author's name,
the search will tell you
>> >> > about
>> >> > all the books by that author in all formats.
>> >> > ----- Original Message -----
>> >> > From: "Tony Baechler"
<bookshare@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> > To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 12:26 AM
>> >> > Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: How Many
NLS Members? (was) Re: Bad
>> > scan
>> >> > Wheel of Time 3
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >> Hi,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> You're probably using the wrong NLS search
engine. You have to use
>> >> >> the
>> >> >> miltiple term search. You select Jordan
Robert in the first field
> and
>> >> >> select author. You put "web braille" in
the second field and
>> >> >> select
>> >> >> note. You leave the third field blank and
search. That is the only
>> >> >> way
>> >> >> of finding Web-Braille titles. Electronic
resource won't work. I
>> > don't
>> >> >> care about talking books so I can't help
there but it's probably a
>> >> >> similar procedure. Write off list if you
still have problems and I
>> >> >> can
>> >> >> send you the url.
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