Hi Ann. Please write to support about this. They need to know that people
care about it. For now, if you want to share a link for a book with
someone,
you can remove everything after the book's number. For example, a link for
the book Devil's Island would look like
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/28207
I just use my cursor keys to select that part of the address to copy and
paste it into an email or Twitter.
In the interest of expanding knowledge here, all you have to do to make a
TinyUrl is copy the address you want to shorten to your clipboard, go to
http://tinyurl.com and paste the address in the edit box on that page.
Choose submit. The page will give you a TinyUrl that you can use.
Monica Willyard
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ann Parsons
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 7:26 AM
To: Volunteers, Bookshare
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] A small complaint
Hi all,
I have a small complaint, and I don't think anyone can do anything about
it,
but I voice it here. The URL disignations on the Bookshare web site are
almost as bad as those on Amazon. They extend over three lines in some
cases, making it totally impossible to use them effectively in email. I
have had occasion to want to place the URL fora specific book in an email
announcement. When I paste in the URL for the thing, it's something like
one hundred and sixtey chars long! I just got the newsletter with the
URLs
for all the articles and the whole message is nothing but numbers, making
it
difficult to read.
Some people use tiny URL, but I don't know how to use it. Anhybody have
any
ideas about how to solve this one?
Ann P.
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AAnn K. Parsons
Portal Tutoring
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Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT
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