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

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:44:55 -0700 (PDT)

You bring up a good point, Roger, one that I, and I think you and some others, 
have   complained about before; when the default language is U.S. English, one 
cannot find books that have been designated British English; can one if one 
changes the language choice to Any? I can't remember, and I haven't tried. 
recently.  Maybe we shouldn't designate British English, as we've been 
directed, when we upload books we';ve proofed; I don't supposed members will be 
concerned with difference in spelling and punctuation. The words sound alike if 
a member is listening to a book; I don't know what Braille would do. And 
sighted members would figure out soon enough that the spelling is British and 
not U.S. , and not  spelling mistakes.
Cindy



----- Original Message -----
> From: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 1:15 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Awesome - 151,663 Titles on Bookshare
> 
> 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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