[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare & PQ submission
- From: Laura Ann <agape.wellness.massage@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:33:13 -0500
I agree Monica
Thank you for posting this.
I look forward to the PQ books and the access it will give us to
clean scans of books.
I appreciate publishers working with bookshare.
I also appreciate the volunteers and the variety of books we can download.
I don't want to see books that are historical removed because new
ones on the topic might take there place.
Leave all the different types of books and let us decide what to download.
And I dont' have a problem with PQ books replacing existing books
scanned by us as volunteers.
I want the best quality book available.
We dont have the luxury of just going to a library or store and
reading the copy off the shelf as you mentioned.
I appreciate everyone's hard work to see the collection grows.
Laura Ann
At 03:08 PM 8/8/2008, you wrote:
Hi, Cindy. No one likes to have their time wasted or see what they
worked on replaced. Having said that, a large number of books
currently in the collection are nowhere near perfect. Keeping them for
the sake of preserving someone's time isn't fair to the members of
Bookshare both because it would create confusion when someone is
searching for books and because we don't enjoy reading messed up books
unless we have no other choice. Even books rated excellent aren't
usually letter perfect, and a significant number have some serious
issues.
Cindy, you have the ability to grab a book from your library or
bookstore and read it whenever you want to. You never have to worry
about scannos, and you don't have the distraction of hearing non-words
spoken in almost every paragraph. Yet you are the loudest voice asking
for Bookshare to keep scanned books when a publisher-quality book is
available. Yes, you may validate carefully from the print copy, and
that's wonderful. You are not in the majority though, and Bookshare
can't just keep books processed by you while getting rid of everyone
else's. All of us here have put our money, time, and energy into
preparing books for people to read. Yet we do this knowing that
someone could come along and do a BSO of our book at any time. In this
case, the publisher is doing a BSO, and who is more qualified to
provide it than the publisher?
You send your emails copied to Lisa and Pavi and would seem to speak
for us. You don't speak for many of us because you don't have any
concept of what it's like to have scanned books as your only source
for reading material. If Bookshare had a magic button where they could
replace every book with a perfect publisher quality version, I would
celebrate and send the staff some champagne. There are a small number
of books with hand-written picture descriptions that might be
replaced, and you could contact Bookshare about those. There are
literally thousands of books in the Bookshare collection that are
barely legible right now. They would become a pleasure to read if
replaced. Teachers want extremely clean scans for their students to
read. The PQ books provide that and benefit adult readers as well. I
just hope they will expand the program and that other publishers will
work with Bookshare in the future.
--
Monica Willyard
Visit my blog at http://www.scannersguild.com
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