Hi Tracy,It really is frustrating, but here's the stuff I do to try and minimize a book I'm proofreading doesn't get replaced while I'm still reading it.
I look up titles I'm going to proofread on Amazon. If the book is out of print, and doesn't have a kindle version available either, I figure I've got a good chance at having it at least not get replaced while I'm proofreading it.
I've actually moved to asking people who scan to scan titles for me, rather than choosing from the checkout list at my first choice. I try to select books that are out of print, without a kindle version available, and often from a publisher that's long gone to boot. I often also look to find a book like that which is from a British or Canadian publisher. That way I can select books that I'm interested in that I think are really good books, and that I'm pretty sure aren't going to get replaced while they're being scanned or proofread.
So far, I've scanned or proofread a little over 500 books. About 50 of those have been replaced, many of them years after I worked on them. Of the 50 that were replaced, most of them were still in print, so I wasn't surprised to see them show up in PQ versions eventually.
One of the books I'm pretty shocked to see that I worked on which still hasn't been replaced is Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White. It's still in print, and it's very popular. But even when a PQ version comes out, that one should stay because I followed Carrie K.'s great advice, which Marilyn posted earlier, and included detailed picture descriptions in the book.
Judy s. On 9/30/2014 11:41 AM, Tracy Carcione wrote:
This is becoming a recurring theme for me. I got a book from the checkout list. I checked if it was already on Bookshare, then I started work on it. And, before I finish, it comes in from the publisher, and I have to flush what I've done. It's depressing. Maybe there's not actually a need for me anymore, since everything is coming from publishers. The book I chose was quite old, so I thought it was pretty safe. Wrong. Is there any way I can be reasonably sure what I grab from the checkout list won't be wiped out by PQ fairly soon after I get it? Tracy To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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