[bookshare-discuss] Re: grateful for the change

  • From: "Larry Lumpkin" <llumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:46:21 -0500

Hi Monica et al. Whether the bookshare page came up for me on the members or the voluntter page used to matter to me because If the administration set my log-in for the volunteer page, it broke the kurzweil interface to their bookshare book search. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> 

To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 5:42 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: grateful for the change
Maybe this is a matter of the differences in how we use Bookshare. Most of the time when I log in, I'm performing a volunteer-related activity. Because of this, I would find it annoying to have to load the volunteer home page each time I log in. I'm curious though... What activity can't you do from the volunteer home page that you can do with the standard member home page? If it's about browsing new books, why not just make a bookmark in your web browser that goes directly to the new books page? You could log in and then immediately load your bookmark. It's what I do when I want to see new books. Maybe a future version of the site will let people choose which home page loads when they log in. I work with books on step 1 and step 2 on a daily basis. On the standard Bookshare home page, you have to hit the letter v 4 times to get to the Volunteer Home. I don't like to be slowed down when working, so if they logged me in with the standard screen, I'd end up writing a macro to load the volunteer home page by default. If they had any announcements on the main page but not the volunteer page, my macro would wiz right on by them. I'm a person who values efficiency and speed, and that's probably why I don't understand your discomfort with the volunteer home page. I rarely look at it because I'm usually busy doing something and just see it as the interface I have to use to get my work done. I can probably learn a lot from you, Brian and Rita. I hope you will understand my questions as an attempt to see things your way. It's so easy to assume that I know how things should be done. Empathy is not my strong suit, and I have to work at understanding how someone else experiences the world. So I could use some help in seeing what I obviously can't see right now. 

Monica Willyard
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 4:22 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: grateful for the change
I also still get bumped to the volunteers page whenever I log in. I find it 
a bit annoying, but it doesn't slow me down too much in the end.
Brian Miller
----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 10:42 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: grateful for the change



It seems to me I get sent to the Volunteer Home page,
too, and I think it's deliberate. That's where you can
check the Books in Process list and get to the Wish
list sites. On my screen the other things, like
download and upload and Browse books are on the
right-hand margin. I don't know where they can be
found for the nonsighted.

Cindy

--- Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hmmm, I just logged in a moment ago and got sent to
> the Volunteer Home page.
> I wonder what's going on.
>
> Evan
>
>   ----- Original Message ----- >   From: rita weyler
>   To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 5:51 PM
>   Subject: [bookshare-discuss] grateful for the
> change
>
>
>   Hello all
>   I signed up to be a bookshare volunteer a few
> months ago.  I was bounced
> to the volunteer page any time I loged in after
> that.  I found this
> extremely annoying.
>   I am so glad that has been changed.  It is
> wonderful not to end up on the
> volunteer page every time I log in  when all I want
> to do is see if we have
> a book title or download a book.
>   Thanks lots for fixing that problem .
>   Rita
>





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