[bookshare-discuss] Re: Validation advice needed
- From: "L. Sammons" <lsammons@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 07:30:35 -0800
In the case of the book Alcoholics Anonymous the main body of the text never
changes but the personal stories in the back do. Many members are fond of an
older addition because they strongly identify with a particular story.
Sam Sammons
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julie Morales" <inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 12:25 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Validation advice needed
> But that's not entirely true, either, because there are several, at least,
> books on the site that have more than one edition. It makes sense, if
> you're
> in the AA program, to want the updated version, but if you're working on
> something else for whatever reason, those older editions can come in handy
> somewhere, I suppose, and it wouldn't really be fair for someone to take
> the
> time to submit a book, only to have it rejected because someone else had
> submitted a newer one. That's like the discussion about the Guinness Book
> of
> World Records discussion we had a while back. If someone submitted a newer
> one, should the older one be taken off the site? I don't think so. Take
> care.
> Julie Morales
> "This book (the Bible) will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from
> this
> book." D.L. Moody
> "To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has
> forgiven the inexcusable in you." C.S. Lewis
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 4:04 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Validation advice needed
>
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> I think that what also worked against Sam's submission is that it was an
> older edition.
> If a 3rd and 4th edition can be chosen among, it
> would make sense that the administrators would
> opt for the later one.
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