[bookshare-discuss] Re: see long synopsis a waste and frustrating
- From: lana <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:54:52 -0800
seconded
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From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2008/04/15 00:19:19
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] see long synopsis a waste and frustrating
>
>
> Dear Booksharian Friends,
>
> Those words, "See long synopsis," which appeared on several titles on
> Sunday's new books list frustrate and annoy me every time I read them. From
> yesterday's list I uploaded 6 books but none of my choices had those dreaded
> words in their descriptions.
>
> Your valuable volunteer and staff efforts have given me so many wonderful,
> usually unexpected, books to read, I don't take time from my volunteering
> reading, and real life to look up titles that refer me to the long synopsis.
>
> I also don't punish myself either to make a point by failing to read books I
> recognize that I like whose authors or titles I already know, just because
> the submittor and validator didn't take time to write any kind of helpful
> short synopsis for them. But, If I'm not familiar with the book, I don't
> bother to track down a long synopsis. If volunteers can't be bothered to
> write a helpful short synopsis, I conclude they don't care much about that
> book and don't waste unnecessary time finding out about it because I think
> it has a good chance of not being carefully prepared.
>
> If a volunteer cares about a book, you'd think she or he would want others
> to benefit from their work. You'd think they would hope many readers will
> select their book and it will be widely read. Why put your own book in the
> seconds bin by not writing an inviting and/or informative short synopsis for
> it? The short synopsis is the book's best publicity.
>
> In other discussions some volunteers have used the excuse that they can't
> write a long synopsis because they haven't read the book. By my personal
> work standards That already shows a considerable amount of lack of caring.
> However given the volunteer isn't planning to read the book, this excuse
> still doesn't hold up. Why not formulate a short synopsis by summarizing
> that famous long synopsis to which they direct potential readers. It
> wouldn't take too long to dash out some brief high points mentioned in that
> long synopsis. It's only 200 characters or less we're hoping for.
>
> I'll always appreciate everyone's work and am not targeting an individual
> since I didn't look up any of these books to identify the volunteers who
> write "See long synopsis." I wouldn't dream of trying to manipulate the
> volunteer community or the staff to weigh in on this issue or to institute
> major changes according to my personal guidelines and desires. It's my hope
> that expressing my opinion might result in some books in the future being
> given the more detailed short synopses they deserve. And if that happens or
> not, at least I've expressed my feelings.
>
> I assume all of us have the good of Bookshare at heart. I've written this
> pointed and fervent message from the perspective of both a volunteer and a
> reader who loves Bookshare. I'm stating my opinion to encourage volunteers
> to try a little harder to attract readers to their books and to make book
> browsing more satisfying to me.
>
> Always with love,
>
> Lissi
>
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