[bookshare-discuss] Re: confusion about finding validation and volunteer material and a few questions
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:58:14 -0700
Hi Jamie,
Your user name and password will be the same, but you do need to go
to the link to sign up to be a volunteer before you can access the manual.
Keep trying! It's worth it once all of the hoops are understandable! We
all started out at the beginning, and boy, was I confused back then!
Good luck!
Mayrie
-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie Prater [mailto:jdprater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 8:30 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: confusion about finding validation and
volunteer material and a few questions
Hello, Mayrie, thanks, this helps, but I tried to access the manual to
answer questions and learn about what you answered and didn't get very far.
Can you use the same user names and passwords or do they need to be
different than the member loggin info? I may think of more later, but right
now, my mind's tired and I will wait until I can form a sentence better.
Thanks again, have a blessed day.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:21 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: confusion about finding validation and
volunteer material and a few questions
> Hi Jamie,
>
> You need to sign up as a volunteer even if you are a bookshare member.
> You can volunteer even if your proof of disability or payment for
> subscription are pending. There is a link on the bookshare home page
> to find out about volunteering.
>
> Instructions for validating are available once you are signed up as a
> volunteer. There is a volunteer manual to read. It will give the
> minimum requirements for bookshare books.
>
> Books in txt format are not accepted by bookshare as submissions.
> Rtf is the preferred submission format.
>
> Does that answer all of your questions without writing you a novel,
> which I have a tendency to do?
>
> Good luck! Volunteering is fun!
>
> Mayrie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie Prater [mailto:jdprater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 7:15 PM
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] confusion about finding validation and
> volunteer material and a few questions
>
> Hi, all, I tried to look up the material for validation to see when I
> thought I'd be able to start helping with that, and I couldn't find a
> specific section on validation. If you are already a member, a
> regular member who can download books, do you have to rejoin as any
> type of volunteer, or can you use your membership loggin info to
> access the volunteer material? Can somebody with a pending membership
> due to delay in print disability verification and/or payment issues
> access volunteer material for credit, particularly when NLS
> verification is complete? I'm asking this for a friend as well as for
> myself. I paid my membership for a year and want to contribute and
> help, and if it pays for subsequent memberships for years to come,
> that's great.
>
> My friend has many already scanned books she could submit but she
> cannot afford the fees. It seems it will take her months and months
> to build up credit, so she's in limbo about submitting books.
>
> Lastly, I have a book that I downloaded as a pdf file. Jaws wouldn't
> read it properly, so the people at Freedom Scientific helped me to
> save it into a .txt file that made it easier for me to read. Can a
> book be submitted to bookshare in this form? I think it has copyright
> info and probably page breaks--haven't scrutinized it that closely but
> am almost sure it does. I don't want my friend to get discouraged and
> refuse to donate or read books for bookshare as I think she will enjoy
> givine and receiving immensely as I will and do, but she doesn't have
> a job and money's tight, and her hands are tied until this obstacle is
> removed somehow or until she is free to submit books and build credit.
> Any help and/or advice for us will be wonderful and you can write me
> privately at jdprater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thanks and have a blessed day.
>
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