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

  • From: "Stephan, William S NWK" <william.s.stephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:55:02 -0500

Typically, I browse the new books list periodically, and see if there's
something I'm interested in reading.  I guess what I'm asking is if there's a
way to tell if title X is fiction or nonfiction, not necessarily to generate
a list per se.
Thanks.


-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Hovas [mailto:GeraldHovas@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:49 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: e: Re: SEPARATE PAGES FOR BOOKS IN
ENGLISH, BOOKS IN SPANISH, AND BOOKS FOR CHILDREN


Stephan,

Bookshare already allows you to specify whether a book is fiction or
nonfiction.  The categories are "Nonfiction" and "Literature and Fiction".
They don't make you choose one or the other, though, and most people don't
think to check them because of the way the fiction category is named.
Because of this, you can't reliably generate a list of fiction or nonfiction
books using Advanced Search.  We've pointed this out to them, and maybe one
day we'll be able to reliably list fiction and nonfiction books.

HTH

Gerald

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephan, William S NWK [mailto:william.s.stephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 9:48 AM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: e: Re: SEPARATE PAGES FOR BOOKS IN ENGLISH,
BOOKS IN SPANISH, AND BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

Something else which would be helpful is to designate a book as fiction or
nonfiction.  Sometimes it's difficult to tell, particularly in the area of
history.


-----Original Message-----
From: Jake Brownell [mailto:jabrown@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:39 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: e: Re: SEPARATE PAGES FOR BOOKS IN
ENGLISH, BOOKS IN SPANISH, AND BOOKS FOR CHILDREN


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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