That's my thought entirely, Roger. Having said that, four of B. Traven's books
I've scanned have eventually gone live, as have two McPhee books. The thing
with the current B. Traven book, "Government", is that it's the first of a
six-part historical fiction epic describing the 1910 Mexican revolution.
Traven was a wonderful, wonderful writer, but I readily admit that his plots
move along v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. He was also a flaming radical anarchist, who
rejected Communism because he thought it was "too weak". I own two of the six
books, and would be willing to buy the other four (since I haven't yet read
them myself), but not if I'm the only one who is going to benefit from doing so
(they are long out of print and consequently might be a bit pricey).
Perhaps I'm just being impatient. Waiting to see what happens won't be too
stressful.
Bill Korn
From: Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, June 3, 2016 6:09 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Checking Books
I suppose you can't expect your tastes to match the tastes of other
volunteers. I submitted People versus Profits by Victor Perlo back on December
30. Since that time one person checked it out and then released it only a few
minutes later. No one else has touched it. It makes me wish that I had spent
all the time I spent on that book with another book.
On 6/3/2016 2:36 PM, William Korn (Redacted sender willythekorn for DMARC)
wrote:
The last three books I've scanned and submitted have had an interesting
history. The first, a non-fiction work by John McPhee, submitted in late
March, was picked up by two checkers, each of whom eventually released it. The
second, a fiction work by B. Traven, submitted in mid-April, was also picked up
and subseqently released by two checkers. The third, another non-fiction work
by John Mcphee, in early May, has not been picked up at all.
Should I take this to mean that perhaps these two authors are of not great
interest to the Bookshare community? I'd like to know, since I have one more
book by John McPhee which I have scanned, but haven't completely reviewed yet.
And I have several more books by B. Traven, but wouldn't want to waster my time
with them if they're not going to go live.
Bill Korn
