[bookshare-discuss] Re: uploading a book

  • From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 07:50:14 -0800

Thanks Shelley,
I will try all of these things and keep submitting.
Brian Miller

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 7:10 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: uploading a book


> Hey Brian, this is a problem a lot of us are having and the engineers are
> working on it.
>
> Here is what works to solve the problem for me, and don't stop submitting
> books!
>
> 1. Clean out your cookies folder.
>
> Or...
> 2. Rename your file to less than eight characters.  For example instead of
> in hitler's shadow.rtf just say hitler.rtf
>
> Also remember no punctuation in the file name.
>
> And when there is no error it is the file name or something about it, that
> causes the system to reject.
>
> Be careful if using kurzweil 1000 to submit to save in MS word before
> uploading.  Bookshare things that Kurzweil generated .rtf files aren't
well
> .rtfs.
>
> Hope this helps.  And don't stop submitting there are work around.
>
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
> juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
> Graduate Advisory Council
> www.guidedogs.com
>
> The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to
> stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
>
>       -- Vance Havner
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 1:08 AM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] uploading a book
>
>
> Listers,
> Has anyone tried to upload/submit a book to the bookshare website only to
> get the error message, but no error is indicated?  In other words, I'm
told
> there is an error, but it doesn't say what the error is -- such as too
long
> a synopsis, or no format indicated, so on.
> This is very frustrating, and will result in my not submitting books -- 
too
> bad as I have an aweful lot of them.
>
> Brian Miller
>
>
>


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