[bksvol-discuss] Re: Awesome - 151,663 Titles on Bookshare

  • From: Dasha Radford <dasha95@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:23:14 -0400

Ever tried reading British English braille? Now that will slow you down a 
little at least to start with. Particularly the rather strange way of doing 
punctuation. You will get used to it I did but it looks really strange at first.

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On Jun 22, 2012, at 8:17 PM, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> As someone who used to read books both in British and American English with 
> my eyes I can testify that there is no trouble switching from one to another. 
> The differences in spelling does stand out, but it doesn't slow you down or 
> interfere with comprehension.
> On 6/22/2012 6:02 PM, Dasha Radford wrote:
>> In the advanced search page there should be and all languages option or it 
>> may be called any in the languages box. I think part of differentiation may 
>> have to do with spelling and read the writing style. Yes it's true that if 
>> you can read one you can certainly read the other but the phrasing and 
>> slightly different spelling not to mention the particulars in printing are 
>> what make the differentiation necessary. However, I do feel that the search 
>> for the two at least in the advanced should be changed from US English and 
>> British English to just English. If you speak the English language and if 
>> you read with an assistive device such as your computer, notetaker, or phone 
>> using some kind of screen reading software or in the case of the phone read 
>> to go or something like it there should be absolutely no reason why you 
>> shouldn't be able to understand the writing. If you read the books with your 
>> eyes and you're not used to it there might be some trouble.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Jun 22, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> It is interesting that when I click the search button without filling 
>>> anything in the search field I thought I was getting a list of every book 
>>> Bookshare has, but I only get 145,688 titles returned. I don't really have 
>>> a lot of reason to have a list of every single book in the collection 
>>> sitting right in front of me, but I thought that was a way to find out how 
>>> many books were in the collection. It is apparently not. I think I see the 
>>> reason for the discrepancy. I have my advanced search settings set for as 
>>> broad a search of the collection as possible and assume that if I want it 
>>> to be narrower I can narrow it for a specific search when I do that 
>>> specific search. The problem seems to be the language. I have it set to 
>>> search American English and I see no way to search for more than one 
>>> language at a time. The only reason I would have to search for all 
>>> languages at once is to see how many books are in the collection, but that 
>>> is now taken care of by this new counter feature.
>>  However, it would really be nice if I could search for American English and 
>> British English at the same time. They are treated as separate languages 
>> though. I can see why the choice of specifying a language is there. There is 
>> no point in searching for books in a language that one cannot read. However, 
>> when it comes to British English and American English there really should 
>> not be anyone who can read one and not the other. I don't see why they are 
>> treated as different languages in the search feature. As long as they are, 
>> though, does anyone know how to search both at one time without having to do 
>> a different search for each language?
>>> On 6/22/2012 3:40 PM, Judy s. wrote:
>>>> I just looked at the new version of Bookshare's entry page on the website 
>>>> (http://www.bookshare.org). I love the new feature on the right hand side 
>>>> of the page that's a counter of how many books are in the collection.  As 
>>>> of today, there are 151,663 titles.  That is totally awesome.
>>>> 
>>>> As a sighted but disabled member, I'm also grateful for and thrilled by 
>>>> the number of publisher quality books that have entered the collection in 
>>>> the last 18 months with the original illustrations intact.  I haven't read 
>>>> a book where I can look at the illustrations for over 20 years.  Way to 
>>>> go, Bookshare!  I'm psyched about the POET project to get illustrations 
>>>> described. It gives me hope that eventually everyone can have access to 
>>>> both illustrations and good descriptions of the illustrations in the 
>>>> future.
>>>> 
>>>> Judy s.
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