He’s in no rush Cindy and he does enjoy historical fiction and uses a flatbed
scanner. HE’s in North Texas visiting his mom but can see e-mail.
Susan
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy Rosenthal
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2016 9:13 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Checking Books
Very good point, Kathy. When I was able to scan I took books from the Wish list
That didn't particularly interest me. I currently have on my to-proof list (
last on the list because the person who requested it is no longer with us,I
fear; it was requested years ago) a series of historical fiction about the
history of Australia. I was working ) on book one) and really enjoying it and
when I finish the more immediately needed books I'll go back to it ( since
volume 2 of the Hitler biography that Larry so diligently scanned has
recently been provided by the publisher. Larry scans books that I think might
not interest him ( though he does seem to be interested in nonfiction history
-- though maybe it's not that he's interested in the genre but he thinks the
books should be preserved and made available to people who are. He's done ( and
I've proofed) some wonderful books that cover periods in U.S history and WWII.
These are huge books, both in terms of number of pages and weight. How he
manages to lift them to scan I don't know; maybe he uses a wand scanner rather
than flat-bed. And he did one of the best historical fiction books I've ever
read that was not available in any library anywhere in the world. Now I'll be
getting back to a historical fiction about the Abolitionist movement in
Boston Very soon, Larry) apologetic smile,
Cindy
On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Kathy Hester <kathyruthh@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:kathyruthh@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
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
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