As a former communist activist and as someone who has a strong interest
in radical history I would probably be quite interested in those books
myself. However, there are certain reasons that I have decided that my
forte is scanning, not proofreading. If you are interested in our
radical traditions, though, you might be interested in proofing that
book People versus Profits yourself. The author, Victor Perlo, was a
very long time member of the Communist Party, USA and was a regular
columnist for that party's newspaper. This book is an anthology of many
of his columns written from the very early 1960s up until his death in
about 2000.
On 6/3/2016 9:28 PM, William Korn (Redacted sender willythekorn for
DMARC) wrote:
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
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*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
