[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare & PQ submission
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:23:41 -0500
Well, I have tried to keep out of this, but I feel that Cindy is being
misunderstood. She is not saying Bookshare should discontinue publisher
quality books. Her wish was that both copies could be kept: PQ books
alongside books that are of truly excellent quality that we have scanned and
validated.
May I make a suggestion? Why don't we send these posts to bookshare staff,
rather than take a chance on hurting the feelings of fellow volunteers.
Sue S.
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From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 8:22 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare & PQ submission
Cindy have you ever read a less than excellent rated book yourself?
I mean, since you do not actually have a print disability, have you
ever experienced what "less than excellent" actually means in real
life for an entire book? Believe me when I say it is torture.
It is a fact that many books with "excellent" ratings are not in fact
"excellent" in reality.
E.
At 07:14 PM 8/8/2008, you wrote:
>No, No. I agree with what you say. I have only asked that books that
>are indeed excellent not be replaced. As someone suggested recently,
>it would be very nice if we could know when books were added to the
>collection so that we could know if a title is a BSO that has
>replaced a Fair or Good book and is now excellent or if it is not so
>readable. If there were two copies of a book in the collection, a PQ
>and a volunteer-processed one, if a reader downloaded the latter and
>it was not as good as the PQ one he/she could tell Carrie or someone
>and that book could be removed from the collection and the PQ one
>remain. On the other hand, there have been comments here that the PQ
>books are not perfect and have problems. If a reader downloaded a PQ
>book and wasn't happy with it he/she could try the volunteer one and
>if it was easier to read could read that one. He'd have a choice.
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>It's pie-in-the sky,though--whatever that means--since at the moment
>it isn't going to happen--but I wish it would, just so people could
>have a choice and read whatever copy is best and easiest to read.
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>Cindy
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