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

From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:54:27 -0700 (PDT)
One way to find childen's books would be to use the 
Browse catagories" in the Browse Books section. I just
tried it and it does work, althought the English and
Spanish are not separated.

Jake, you do so much and already have separate English
and Spanish books. Could you add children's books to
your site and somehow separate them the way you
separated the other languages? Like Lissi, I'm not
much of an expert on using the computer--it's like
driving a car--I know how to drive (use) but can't fix
a car (which I agree all women and girls should know
how to do) or know how to set things up or "fix" a
cmputer.

Cindy

--- Jake Brownell <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Gerald Hovas, one of the list monitors did respond
> to the question about 
> separating out Children's Books. Unfortunately the
> infrastructure that 
> powers BookShare.org is not at this time capable of
> accomplishing this goal. 
> When a book is added to the collection a language
> must be selected, either 
> English or Spanish, but there is no provision to
> mark a book Children or Not 
> Children.
> 
> We are looking forward to adding links to the
> website that will allow for 
> the separation of new books in English from those in
> Spanish.
> 
> Jake Brownell
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "kagey" <kageylucy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 5:38 PM
> 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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