Cindy, I don't think it's a good idea to change the designations of books for this reason. It's another one of those things that yes, doesn't totally make sense to me, but it might be something that, for example, allows non-USA members to easily use to search for books that are available to them in their countries because of the copyright laws governing who gets to access what. Just speculating, but I don't think this is one of those things that is up to us volunteers to change on our own. If that makes sense? smile.
Judy s. On 6/22/2012 3:44 PM, Cindy wrote:
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 Cc: 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 thewebsite (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 bythe 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. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get alist of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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