[bksvol-discuss] Re: Questions about scanned textbooks
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:44:11 -0400
Hi Roger,
Actually, what I'm not quite remembering happened before you were a part of
the volunteer community at BookShare--probably in the first couple of years.
I think it was a similar situation--that someone wanted to submit books that
had been scanned for them by their disability services office at school.
But, what I can't remember is whether the real issue was that the books were
not complete with all copyright info etc, or rather that the books were
scanned by someone else and not the volunteer.
Hopefully, Madeleine or
someone else from BS will have an answer...
Deborah
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Questions about scanned textbooks
The context in which it came up before was the issue of submitting ebooks.
Those are not permitted and the rule that was mentioned was that a
submission should be a hard copy that has been scanned. I think it was
worded such that you should scan it yourself, but that was just the wording
and did not anticipate that someone might scan a book for another person. I
am sure that if it is a hard copy book that has been scanned it is okay. You
do make another good point though. Be sure that you check the collection to
see if a book you are contemplating submitting is already there. Without
looking myself I did notice that some of the titles mentioned were titles
that were very likely to already be in the collection.
On 6/19/2012 7:05 AM, Deborah Murray wrote:
Hi Dornetta,
I'd definitely wait for an answer from BookShare on whether you can submit a
book you didn't personally scan. I vaguely remember something like that came
up early on and I don't remember how it was finally resolved.
Lies My Teacher Told Me... is already in the collection with an excellent
rating.
Deborah
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dornetta
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 11:08 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Questions about scanned textbooks
Hello Volunteers!
I posed this question another volunteer who suggested that I ask the list so
here it goes. I have several books that the disability office at school has
scanned for me, the books are textbooks for the Early Childhood Development
and School Age Child degree program. I was reading through the safe
publisher's list and that several of the publishers of these books are in
the safe column. My question is this, if I clean up the scans is it ethical
for me to upload them to bookshare providing that I did not do the scans
myself? These are very informative textbooks that can also be read as
stand-alone books for those who wish to do so.
I also have a book called, "Lies my Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History
Got Wrong" and "The Traveling Pants"(which is a book about the eco-friendly
deham jeans.) Both of these were used as "readers" (stand alone text) for my
sociology class. Oh yea, how could I forget about the World Religion book (I
just forgot the name is all-but this was also a stand alone book for the
sociology class)
Please advise,
Netta
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