[bookshare-discuss] Re: e: Re: SEPARATE PAGES FOR BOOKS IN ENGLISH, BOOKS IN SPANISH, AND BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

  • From: Brenda Mueller <brendin@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:55:22 -0400

Yes, I think we should be able to browse for books in Spanish and books in 
English.  I'm not a staff member of Bookshare,but I'd say let's give the staff 
and programmers a chance to work this out.  First they'll have to read these 
messages and figure out if this site can be programmed that way.

> Brenda Mueller
----- Original Message -----
>From: kagey <kageylucy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:38:32 -0500
>Subject: [bookshare-discuss] e: Re: SEPARATE PAGES FOR BOOKS IN ENGLISH, BOOKS 
>IN SPANISH, AND BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

>Hello Listers,
>Lucky those Spanish persons who can join Bookshare for nothing.
>How about someone from Bookshare support composing a grant so
>that readers who use English books could receive a discount on
>their membership or a free membership.
>And I do not believe that you addressed my suggesttion that you
>divide the new books added into three sections: English,
>children, and Spanish books.  Grant or no grant: all of our time
>is valuable.
>knowledge.  lueders
>kageylucy%sbcglobalsionet

>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx
>>To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:10:38 -0700 (PDT)
>>Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: SEPARATE PAGES FOR BOOKS IN
>ENGLISH, BOOKS IN SPANISH, AND BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

>>If you go to Jake's site and bookmark it, you can
>>easily access books added in English each day without
>>looking at the Spanish.

>>Perhaps you wrote this before reading Janice's
>>explanation about the grant that provided for the
>>books and for memberships to be given free to
>>Spanish-speakers who qualify.  Unfortunately, no one
>>has given a grant to provide books for
>>English-language readers.

>>Remember, too, that many Spanish-speaking children are
>>learning English in school but also need to read in
>>their own language while they're doing it.

>>Cindy

>>--- kath lueders <kageylucy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>> Hi BookShare Listers,

>>> I am annoyed at the percentage of books in Spanish
>>> added to our
>>> collection verses those books in English added.
>>> I am sorry, but I truly believe that when someone
>>> from another country
>>> chooses to live in America, then that person needs
>>> to learn the
>>> English language.  I always thought that was the
>>> native language of
>>> the U.S.A.
>>> After all, as a person who is blind, I have had to
>>> learn to type, at a
>>> very early age, because the world around me was a
>>> print world.
>>> Further, if I wanted to complete my studies, and a
>>> book was not
>>> available in Braille or recorded form, I had to hire
>>> a reader; or scan
>>> it into my computer.
>>> If I want to access printed food labels, I need to
>>> bring along a
>>> person who is sighted, or I need to buy a bar-code
>>> scanner.
>>> I just do not understand why I have joined BookShare
>>> for fifty dollars
>>> per year when the majority of books added on Monday
>>> were not in
>>> English.
>>> Further, my time is valuable.  Why do I need to
>>> arrow down through all
>>> these Spanish titles or titles for children!
>>> Might I suggest: let's have three sections of newly
>>> added books: one
>>> for books in English, another for Books in Spanish,
>>> and a third for
>>> books primarily read by children.

>>> K.  G.  Lueders
>>> kageylucy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx




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