[bookshare-discuss] Re: fiction or nonfiction, and erotica
- From: "Stephan, William S NWK" <william.s.stephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:52:23 -0500
Thanks Cindy. So, say I am considering downloading a book. Where would I
look to find out if it's fiction or non?
-----Original Message-----
From: Cindy [mailto:popularplace@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:02 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] fiction or nonfiction, and erotica
When I upload a book, I do check fiction as well as
whatever other category the book is, e.g history, if
it's historical fiction. In a case of a book like Gore
Vidal's Aaron Burr, or the one I'm doing now, Memoirs
of Cleopatra,I'll probably make sure fiction,
biography and history are all checked.
Karen, I'm not sure if you wwere asking about erotica
because you want to know what's available or the book
you're submitting ur uploading after validation falls
into that category. In the latter case you can
designate as Adult on the second page of the upload. I
don't think there's a way to get a list of Adult
books, though.
Cindy
--- Gerald Hovas <GeraldHovas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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