[bksvol-discuss] Re: Marie Brennan Books
- From: "Ixchel, Jackie" <starsandhearts2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 17:42:46 -0400
Hi,
I'm really sorry to hear that, at least you're doing something you
want to do--not school work. :)
Do you have Pages on your phone? If so, you could definitely proof
from there, I think.
Also, off topic, (if you want, you can write me offlist) is it easy
for you to use your iPhone with voiceover, it's kind of hard for me so
I just wanted to get a second oppinion on whether it's just me.
I'll try my hardest to see if I can get a scanner and since school is
winding down, I might try and locat e abook and try to do it but I'm
not sure, I'm pretty busy. Like I said, I'll try to get a scanner.
Jackie
On 5/29/12, Dasha Radford <dasha95@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sure. This was why I brought up the question of possibly developing an app
> so that people like me who don't always have access to their computers but
> do have fairly constant access to their phones could maybe do scanning and
> or proofreading through the phone?
> Alright, I note that you don't know me none of you do but seeing as we're
> all volunteers together you may as well know what started this. I have
> leukemia. I've been trapped in the house for months wondering what in the
> world I was going to do and remembered that I've always wanted to do
> volunteer work with bookshare but never had the time because of my overly
> full life. it is a rather obvious that my life is no longer full of things
> to do or to be for that matter except bored. So now after five months of
> being trapped in the house working on schoolwork when I can and not when I
> can't I'm bored I want out and this is about the best way I can think to do
> it. Not to mention I want to make books accessible to others seeing as I'm
> deaf blind as well.
> Jackie I think it is now a question of which of the two of us can get hold
> of a scanner at first. But quite frankly I would be more than happy to do
> that if that were in the equation. The thing in question is obviously a
> scanner.
> Thanks,
> DR
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 29, 2012, at 4:32 PM, "Ixchel, Jackie" <starsandhearts2@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Since we apparently can't proof one book together, maybe once we get a
>> scanner, I can do one and you could do one if you like.
>> Jackie
>>
>> On 5/29/12, Dasha Radford <dasha95@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> That's good to know but does this not extend to single chapter as well
>>> depending on whether single chapter or 10% is larger portion of the
>>> text?
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On May 29, 2012, at 4:17 PM, "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Dasha,
>>>>
>>>> Currently, you can't share content in the way you're suggesting. Only
>>>> one
>>>> person can be the proofreader of a book at a time. Bookshare hopes to
>>>> change that in the future, so books can be done a chapter at a time.
>>>> Currently, the 10% limit is the amount of material that can be passed at
>>>> a
>>>> time directly from a person who has scanned a book and submitted it,
>>>> and
>>>> the person who has checked it out and is proofreading it. That happens
>>>> when, for example, the person proofreading the book discovers that part
>>>> of
>>>> a chapter is missing, and the scanner can then send the proofreader
>>>> those
>>>> missing pages directly. Sometimes when a page is missing, and the
>>>> original
>>>> scanner can't get the book again or isn't available, a volunteer other
>>>> than the original scanner will find the book in their library, and scan
>>>> it
>>>> for the proofreader. But other than those kinds of situations,
>>>> volunteers
>>>> cannot share scanned or proofread material with each other, because of
>>>> the
>>>> laws that govern copyright.
>>>>
>>>> What you might ask for on this list is if someone will scan a short
>>>> book
>>>> for you, like a middle-school level, or a short children's first
>>>> chapter
>>>> book, to proofread. Then you can dip your toe into the proofreading
>>>> waters
>>>> without something that feels overwhelming. smile.
>>>>
>>>> Judy s.
>>>>
>>>> On 5/29/2012 10:14 AM, Dasha Radford wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I do appreciate the help it's true. Unfortunately, we still need
>>>>> somebody
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