[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fiction By Best Selling Author & See Long Synopsis
- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:12:33 -0400
Amen to that. I just updated Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen with new short and
long synopsis. I didn't know or remember about adding a comment about new
synopses. What a waste of time. Btw, just uploaded Brat Farrar by Tey in
case anyone's interested.
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From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 3:56 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fiction By Best Selling Author & See Long
Synopsis
> Is that really true Guido? that is terrible! At least in most cases.
> Sometimes a validator's changes to the book info wouldn't be an
> improvement, but I would think that would be extremely rare. I would be
> extremely frustrated to find that a book I validated and provided more
> information for, had the old stuff still there when it was added to the
> collection. that is just a waste of everyone's effort.
>
> Sarah
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Guido Corona" <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 2:06 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fiction By Best Selling Author & See Long
> Synopsis
>
>
> > Paul, I suspect there are some problems with the system as well. For
> > example, if the submitter specifies a synopsis at submission time, or
> > leaves it blank, the reviewer's changes wil not be applied. Any
reviewer
> > must put his proposed changes/additions in the comment field at approval
> > time as a note to the administrator, who will then include those change
> > as appropriate. So, if the submitter has stated:
> >
> > "It's all in the title"
> >
> > in the short description, the reviewer's changes will disappear,
unless
> > the reviewer puts them also in the aforementioned comment field. What
is
> > even more irritating is that if your submission is expected to replace
an
> > older copy, the short and long descriptions you post will be lost, in
> > favor of the old ones.
> >
> > The bottom line is that, while volunteer accuracy does help, a few
well
> > placed bug fixes on the volunteer site will help us as well.
> >
> > Please do not get discouraged, you have submitted a lot of excellent
> > quality books!
> >
> >
> >
> > Guido D. Corona
> > IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
> > IBM Research,
> > Phone: (512) 838-9735
> > Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at:
> > http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Edwards, Paul" <pedwards@xxxxxxxx>
> > Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 04/28/2004 12:28 PM
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> > Two issues. First, would we be better served with a single, slightly
> > longer synopsis that would obviate the need for doing two.
> >
> > Second, with many of the books I submitted, I wrote a short and long
> > synopsis and only ever saw the short one see the light of day once the
> > book made it into the system.
> >
> > I think that there is some merit in doing what Allison has done in the
> > newsletters and simply quoting Amazon where available. That is
certainly
> > a safe course. I cannot speak for other folks on this list but I know
> > that I often scan but do not read so that my synopses are really nothing
> > more than capitulations of what I have gleaned from the book cover or
> > elsewhere.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > Paul Edwards, Director
> > Access Services, North Campus
> > Phone: (305) 237-1146
> > Fax: (305-237-1831
> > TTY: (305) 237-1413
> > Email: pedwards@xxxxxxxx
> > home email: edwpaul@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Guido Corona [mailto:guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 12:57 PM
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fiction By Best Selling Author & See Long
> > Synopsis
> >
> >
> > Correct. Short summary is just one or max 2 helpful sentences about the
> > book. And it should not contain personal editorial comments. Be as
> > factual as possible.
> >
> > G.
> >
> >
> > Guido D. Corona
> > IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
> > IBM Research,
> > Phone: (512) 838-9735
> > Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at:
> > http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 04/28/2004 11:21 AM
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> > This is supposed to be a short summary. If you include "idea taken from
> > Amazon.com" it will cut into your allowed summary length. Amber do you
> > have no idea what a book is about when you scan it? Just curious.
> >
> > E.
> >
> >
> > At 10:01 AM 4/28/2004, you wrote:
> > >Guido,
> > >Would you recommend if we are not good at coming up with summaries of
> > our
> > >own, can we go to Amazon.com and look at their summary, then make one
up
> > >on our own based on that? I wouldn't use the summary directly, but
take
> > >the main idea, then in quotes at the end of the summary say, "idea
taken
> > >from amazon.com
> > >Amber
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