[bookshare-discuss] Re: no mor share in Bookshare...book.org
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 22:05:45 -0800 (PST)
I'm not sure that will happen in my lifetime. Which is
just as well, because I'd miss volunteering for
bookshare. I'll have to start doing housework and
cleaning up the house. I could put in more hours at
the library or something else but since I go back and
forth between San Diego and Los Angeles, it's not fair
to the organization. Bookshare I can contribute to any
time from anywhere.
G.Cindy
--- Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Booksharian friends,
>
> We're growing and changing all right, and while I
> can, I'm enjoying scanning and validating
> enormously.
>
> Geoff was musing, acknowledging PQ books can be good
> and speculating there may come a day when we no
> longer need to scan books, and to that, I added "or
> validate, either."
>
> In the spirit of musing, the thought trickled by
> that no more scanning or validating would put an end
> to the original concept of blind people and other
> reading challenged people sharing their hard won
> scans and validations with one another. What started
> as Bookshare.org, when all additions are of PQ books
> only will become Book.org, or, with all the
> additional staff, they'll generate a totally new
> name, blank.org, formerly known as Bookshare.org and
> finally blank.org with Bookshare a memory descended
> below the horizon. Whatever the name, we can hope
> the books will have some sort of synopses and be
> braille accessible with conversions which won't fry
> the brains of the braille readers or their adaptive
> technologies.
>
> I really think everything will be all right, but
> musing happens.
>
> Always with love,
>
> Lissi
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Geoff Stephens
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:30 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Way To Go, Scott!
>
>
> Updating the Web interface is trivial compared to
> the changes to the back end necessary for such
> things as book conversions, etc. Still, the uI for
> the service has needed ongoing enhancement which
> really hasn't been addressed. this is really the
> easiest part of the process.
>
> Do a book search and the results aren't organized
> in any logical manner that makes navigation with a
> screen reader the least bit intuitive. I'm not
> going to bother to try to get into all the specifics
> about what needs to be done to the site here. it
> would take some time. It is disappointing that
> sites designed specifically for use by blind people
> don't implement the very features we complain about
> every day with regard to many mainstream sites.
>
> I don't know what I would do without it, but I
> shudder when I think about all the duplication of
> effort of scanning content that is new enough that
> it never gained the distinction of being typed or
> hand written. I applaud the publisher quality
> effort and hope we can eventually completely
> eliminate the need to scan books.
***WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS
AVAILABLE AT
http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/Book_Requests.htm
http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/
http://studentpages.alma.edu/~07jmyate/book_requests.htm
A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT
http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/scanning.html
Jake's site for useful links: http://www.jbrownell.com/bkslinks.html
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