One thing to remember, everybody. I've proofed and scanned books that
don't especially interest me, but they might interest other readers.
You can't always go by what gets picked up fast in the checkout cue,
since not all people who read from Bookshare are volunteers. I'm
currently doing much more scanning than proofing right now, since I
finally got Kurzweil again, and the checkout list was definitely needing
some new stuff. But there is a lot more there now.
Kathy
On 6/3/2016 8:09 PM, Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender rogerbailey81
for DMARC) wrote:
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
