Hello. Oh yes, Jake has his own series site. However, from my
understanding, you must have a valid login to access it, or at least
that's what he mentioned to me in email at one point. This would
require no such login and anyone can feel free to add or change
anything. If one wanted to add a category for vintage radio books,
Jake has to actually create it. This way, people just write
"VintageRadioBooks" somewhere on the navigation page (the top list of
links you get when you look at the site) and there you go, it's
done. I don't have to do anything and no one needs to login to add
missing books. In addition, recently Mr. Troup posted that Have Gun,
Will Travel was corrupted. All someone would have to do is put that
on the page right below the book title. One's imagination is the
only limit here. If things get really out of hand, changes can
always be rolled back. The only thing necessary to edit pages is any
web browser. I've had great luck with Window-Eyes and Internet
Explorer, but Lynx would also work. I don't use other screen
readers. The only limit to anyone changing anything is that you'll
have to have a password to edit the pages. The reason is just to
prevent robots from filling it up with junk and useless ads. The
password would be posted on the site so you wouldn't have to look for
it. It would be something simple like an author's name or something,
just to keep robots out.
The next step is to determine how much interest there is. I think it
could be incredibly useful for all manner of things. If people want
to write a page on how they read books with a computer or some such,
that's easily done. Want to start a community book club? No
problem. I'm not going to set it up unless I get enough interest. I
would need someone to act as moderator if things get way out of hand
or far off topic, and I would need to know that at least a reasonable
number of people would actually use it. Other than that, I could set
it up this weekend if there is demand. I suppose I could always take
it away if people aren't interested. It has great potential for the
volunteer list also. Have a great scanning tip? Make a page called
ScanningTips and post! Honestly, who really look through the old
list archives to find the little gems that people have posted? I
would guess not many. Being on the web, this is more permanent and
easily searchable. I forgot to mention that it comes with a search
engine. Eventually it would show up on google and that ultimately
brings more people to bookshare. Any thoughts or questions? Feel
free to write me off or on list. This is not off topic so I'm
removing that from the subject.
At 01:23 AM 2/10/2006, you wrote:
That sounds very interesting, and as if it would be something for us here at bookshare, to, as you suggest, add lists of series, though I think Jake has one, or synopses that people could go to if they want to add one, or whatever. I'm glad you used wikipedia as an example, because I do know what that is.
